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Minister presents to Italian PM a proposal for tunnel under the Strait of Messina
Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Giancarlo Cancelleri said he is preparing with technical people a proposal for a tunnel project under the Strait of Messina. It will be part of the Salerno - Palermo high speed train railway. All the way from Berlin to Palermo a high speed train line. He hopes to get it ready in a week and present it to Prime Minister Conte. Giornale di Sicilia wrote.
A first response of the government's consideration we can expect in this autumn says Cancelleri who has always been an upbeat politician from the South. La Repubblica quotes him saying "The Strait? Wrong view," "If instead I asked you 'Do you want high speed between Salerno and Palermo?', How many of you would say no to me?" "And then those are fifty billion investment, which means jobs, development".
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There is a long running bridge project on the Strait of Messina. In general, tunnel is considered a better option for high speed railways. In a separate development, the Unione dei Siciliani - Sicilia Nazione movement had last week sent all the regional deputies the text of a draft vote to be presented to the Chamber of Deputies and to the Senate of the Republic so that the national government could restart the process of building the bridge over the Strait of Messina.
Finally the right words from Italian politicians:
Tunnel under the Strait of Messina: "Because it is better than the bridge".
Giovanni Saccà's report says: "It becomes almost obvious the need and the opportunity to build underground tunnels in a natural tunnel instead of bridges".
"it is unlikely that the 4km tunnel would cost more than the bridge"
So far so good!
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"Billions of euros handed to Italy by the EU to restart its crippled economy could be used to build a tunnel from the country’s mainland to Sicily, Giuseppe Conte, the prime minister, has said"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/italy-will-use-eu-bailout-cash-to-build-sicily-tunnel-lqnnzbds7
Good reporting from La Repubblica.
The man who proposed the Strait of Messina, and a star of the Conte government, Giovani Saccà is not a tunnel engineer or a civil engineer! Yet he is the engineer who convinced Deputy Minister Giancarlo Cancelleri with his plans of an underground tunnel between Messina and Villa San Giovanni.
Saccà is a former manager of the Railways. He is an Electrical Engineer who graduated from the University of Padua. He has never built tunnels or bridges. But he says he read about them a lot and he knows that such a tunnel is feasible.
He says the tunnel idea is not his idea. The first draft plan for the tunnel is from 1988 and he has only awakened the plan he says. He says the Engineers Association of Milano raises the seismic risks of the area because they are angry that the tunnel option has been added to the existing bridge options.
For strait of Messina fixed link "Tunnel option is better because there is no bridge over the earth that is longer than 1.4 km on which there are tracks to allow the passage of trains"
"there is a mountainous continuity between the Aspromonte in Calabria and the Peloritani in Sicily, so it would be possible to build sub-sea tunnel just 170 meters deep"
Anti-tunnel lobby started rolling in for the Strait of Messina fixed link:
Alberto Prestininzi, professor of Applied Geology at the La Sapienza University of Rome, director of Ceri (Research Center for forecasting, prevention and control of geological risks):
"The project of the bridge over the Strait is the son of Italian ingenuity and technique, the idea of the tunnel is a question that embarrasses us".
He was also a member of the scientific committee of the Strait of Messina from 2001 to 2012... He says the tunnel has to be rejected for seismic reasons. He claims “a tunnel, to go down to 300 meters and go up again, with a maximum possible gradient of 12 per thousand, would need tunnels of 56 km".
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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