“For months there have been announcements, proclamations, meetings with mayors, catwalks of politicians Brothers of Italybut the facts say in an incontrovertible manner that the regional government has forgotten the North South. Out of 6.8 billion euros of Development and Cohesion Fund 2021-2027 not even one euro has been allocated for the completion of the important road linking it Santo Stefano di Camastra with Frost passing through the center of Sicily”.
Thus the deputy of the Enna PD and vice president of the Budget Commission Fabio Venezia regarding the resources recently programmed by Schifani government for Sicilian infrastructure. The first modernization works of the SS 117, included in the national planning of strategic roads, began in the eighties and, more than forty years later, are continuing with considerable delays. To complete the 28 km missing in the central part, which will allow the two sides of the island to be connected and the entire arterial road to be completed, the construction of the section is necessary Nicosia south to the Mulinello A19 junction for a total amount of approximately 1 billion euros. The completion of the so-called “Road of the Two Seas” would finally allow an entire area of internal Sicily to be released from road isolation (Mistretta, Nicosia, Leonforte, Agira, Assoro, Nissoria, Valgurneraetc…).
“We had strongly asked the Schifani Government – declares Venice – to finance at least one of the C lots with FSC resources in order to be able to move forward with the works in the direction of Leonforte – Mulinello and in this regard we had presented a specific agenda in recent months which had been voted unanimously by theSicilian Regional Assembly. It is very serious that in the recent council resolution with which the Cohesion Agreement was approved – concludes the Democratic MP – la North South has been totally forgotten. All this is clear proof of the regional government’s total disinterest in the strategic infrastructures of the internal and marginal areas of Sicily”.
