Posted 6 Dec. 2022 at 02:48 PMUpdated 6 Dec. 2022 at 02:51 PM
It is the sea serpent par excellence of infrastructure works in Italy: a suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina to connect Sicily to the Continent. The project has been fantasizing regarding the country since Antiquity, but the Italian government only seriously mentioned it for the first time in 1866. Never materialized, it became the priority of the new Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Matteo Salvini. And the Council of Transport Ministers, meeting in Brussels on Monday, gave the green light to a feasibility study within the framework of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to guarantee sustainable links across the continent.
