Wednesday,
May 28,
The
ANNOTICO Report
At
first I was in favor of what I thought could be a great stimulus to southern
(1)
There are So many other projects that could be so much more of a stimulus to
the area, with the same $ 8 BILLION
(2)
Being built on an active fault line seems like an engraved invitation to
disaster.
(3)
More or Larger Ferries could better handle the traffic
(4)
Big Projects are prone to big Bribes.
BERLUSCONI
Spiegel
Online
From
Reuters
May
28, 2008
There
Just
weeks after being re-elected prime minister of
At 3.3 kilometers
(over two miles) long, the proposed structure would be the world
Plans for
bridging this divide go back all the way to the Romans and have been revived by
such illustrious names as Charlemagne and Mussolini. In 2003, Berlusconi put
Pietro Ciucci in charge of a company set up to run
the project, Societ` Stretto
di Messina SpA. Then, in 2006, the Berlusconi
government granted the contract for the bridge to
That same year,
however, the Berlusconi government was replaced by one led by Romano Prodi and the bridge plans were tabled as being "not a
priority" and of "doubtful viability."
Last Friday,
though, Altero Matteoli,
the new government
Unbridgeable
Division of Opinions
Supporters of the
bridge list a number of factors in its favor. First, they believe it would aid
the region
Opponents
of the plan see myriad reasons why the bridge should not be built. First, they
question whether the bridge could withstand a trembler in the earthquake-prone
area.
Others worry that
the area
Last but not
least, opponents worry that some funds for the bridge would ultimately end up
in the hands of Cosa Nostra and
Nichi Vendola,
president of
jtw/reuters
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