The councilor for sport, tourism and youth policies of the Municipality of MilanMartina Rivawas a guest on today’s Newzgenthe show broadcast on Twitch and YouTube produced by Alanews. Riva intervened on theSan Siro stadium topicthe day after the Lombardy TAR has the Municipality’s appeal on the restriction was declared inadmissible. His words: “We must do the best with the ingredients we have. It is in everyone’s interest that the times we have set ourselves are respected: WeBuild will present the project at the beginning of the summer, I would say June, then the teams will have to decide on the their stay at San Siro. I am convinced it will be an excellent quality project, after which as councilor I will do everything to ensure that the clubs have pleasure and interest in remaining in Milan, they are an invaluable asset for our city. Leaving that neighborhood would be a great shame. it is one of the few facilities in Europe with the metro built under the stadium, in order to enhance it.”
Then Riva continued: “Until December 2022 I didn’t think San Siro could be such a huge boulder to manage. With difficulty the city council had approved the teams’ project (“The Cathedral”, ed.) which envisaged remaining in the same area as the current stadium, with the use of the same subway and in compliance with the most modern needs of inclusion, accessibility and safety. Then the Superintendency came to warn us of the restriction that it would apply and, after years of discussions with the clubs and four months of public debate, we did it. found ourselves with the impossibility of demolishing San Siro. Not that I am in favor of this scenario, but what I want is a stadium at the level of Milan and Inter and above all accessible, an aspect that cannot be renounced for me: if the Polytechnic tells me that It’s very difficult to do an accessibility project on San Siro, I trust the Polytechnic, it’s the best in the world. In short, it’s a wasted opportunity also because it’s not every day you see a billion in investments in that neighborhood. Having said that, the WeBuild project will be beautiful and we are happy to keep it going at San Siro.”
