The bridge to the future. AN Reggio played bridge between the future and the Metropolitan City
Friday, July 31, 2009 24:10
Peppe Caridi -
The government has announced that work will begin in five months for the construction of the bridge. We asked what they think the prof.
Massimiliano Ferrara, president of the undergraduate degree in Economics from the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Indian Academy of Mathematics.
Professor Ferrara, the government seems more convinced than ever to maintain a commitment to the bridge over the Strait, but the feeling we have is that the local population, especially in Messina, is not conducive to the construction of this great work. Why?
"It 's clear that the extraordinary natural beauty and landscape of the Straits us to have an emotional attachment to the territory that you want to reject a priori any additional work and any changes imposed by human artifice, but we must look to the future: as the bridge over the Strait there are two souls, the lovers' the natural environment and the more concrete, for those who want to point to the economic development of the territory. "
How can the bridge, to stimulate economic development?
"Economic development is directly linked to the development of infrastructure, Europe can not do without of Sicily, which is vital for the economic development of the continent, more so in this important historical moment. The Chinese and the Indian market is growing rapidly, and with that fact that Europe has to face. The Bridge serves Europe, and is strategic because they are within 3 km of the main Berlin-Palermo corridor. "
But beyond the obvious benefits for Europe, for Italy and Sicily, more specifically what 'win-win' Reggio and Messina?
"The Bridge has a large accommodation capacity, and represents is unique and special, historically and quantitatively, disbursement of public spending. And 'that' shock 'economic lifeblood you need to give importance to the territory, which is called to create a round led to the realization of this great work. "
However, there are those who say that Reggio and Messina, with the Bridge, will be cut off from the main road network in the country.
"Reggio and Messina will be cut off only if you will cut out. Certainly the large number of tourists attracted by the bridge, do not come to see the bridge, take a picture and go away immediately, but ... the Bridge is an attraction in a modern district that has great historical background, artistic, and cultural monuments. So if the Reggio and Messina will enhance the major tourism resources in the territory of the two cities and two provinces, tourists will discover all the fabulous treasures now nearly unknown and a little valued. The bridge would give the territory of the Strait economic turn used to Reggio and Messina to grow and develop. "
So the bridge alone would be able to raise an area so depressed?
"The Bridge is not something to be considered in a separate and independent of everything else alone does not mean anything, you have to frame it in the system of the Strait and to understand how the public work may have implications for individuals. The bridge would give great encouragement to this territory, and is a great opportunity for all sectors, not just the one building and tourism but also for training and the university. "
With that spirit, then, the population of the Strait must live the next few months?
complaints and demonstrations against the government's decision, like the one scheduled for 8 August at Messina, are justified?
"The approach must be that of planning, not of a priori criticism. The barricades, and not just ideological, are useless and do nothing but postpone the problem and prolong the time for its development. "
The bridge will be even closer to the realization of the Metropolitan Area of \u200b\u200bthe Strait, is not it?
"The Bridge will surely become an icon is symbolic of the area of \u200b\u200bthe Strait, the 'icing on the cake' that can combine two different systems and even today in some ways far (see transport, in fact!) but closely related. The implementation of the Area Strait and the Metropolitan City of the Strait should, however, regardless of the bridge. A solution to the bureaucratic loopholes, constitutional and administrative could be the establishment of an 'extraordinary region' for the provinces of Reggio and Messina, with wide powers of autonomy. "
About City Subway: the Reggio became a few months ago. Now what happens?
"Reggio is experiencing a great historical importance, of which perhaps we are not realizing. With the birth of the Metropolitan City and the construction of the bridge, we could experience a future of great honor, but also dust if we fail to seize the opportunities that the story we are offering. What do we want?
"But, sir, do you think it is conceivable that an area is affected by these ambitions with the current serious lack of infrastructure in the airport sector?
Airport Strait, despite some signs of recovery in recent months, a crisis in black ... "That the Airport of the Strait, the Tito Minniti Reggio Calabria, is a real emergency. It 'absolutely essential and a priority plan for a proposed rapid growth and development hub of Reggio Calabria, to become an important reference point for at least the area of \u200b\u200bthe Strait, which in this area has a large catchment area if we consider the population movements and tourism potential in the optical bridge and the Metropolitan City of the Province of Reggio and Messina. "
