The battle of the Technical Political Committee AV Calabria continues, regarding the issue of high speed in our region. Yesterday a delegation, led by the mayor of Cosenza, Franz Caruso and composed of the first citizens of Castrovillari, Mimmo Lo Politoof San Marco Argentano, Virginia Mariottiby the technicians, Giuseppe Lo Feudo, Roberto Musmanno and Luigi Martirano, was received by the director general of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. It must be said that the mayor of the City of Bruzi, last May 27, also in the name and on behalf of the Committee, had asked the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and the Deputy Minister Rixi for the urgent establishment of a technical-political table to address the delicate and very important issue of the construction of the Salerno – Reggio Calabria high-speed railway line.
The request, in which the total institutional disinterest of the Calabria Region and the central State was stigmatized with respect to a distortion of the initially presented project which even led to the total defunding of the work itself, was accepted. Upon the courteous summons of the Director General, delegated by the political body, yesterday’s meeting took place in Rome, at the General Directorate for Railway Transport of the MIT in the technical headquarters, during which the absolute necessity of resume the original project prepared and proposed by RFI and recover the essential funding. The urgency was expressed, should it be appropriate, to prepare adequate technical modifications without however unexpectedly sacrificing the original central route of the line, as it is the only one capable of making an effective connection also with the Calabrian Ionian side after centuries of infrastructural isolation. In this context, the mayors were keen to underline that the immediate decision in this sense becomes fundamental today more than yesterday, in a context in which differentiated autonomy will bring, instead of greater cohesion, even more lacerating divisions between the north and the south of the country. Proposals for the construction of the Praia/Tarsia section and other hypotheses which should run parallel to the motorway were presented on the table.
The position expressed by the mayors of Cosenza was detailed in a technical report, prepared by the experts members of the AV Calabria Scientific Technical Committee, which was delivered to the General Management of the MIT and which will be brought, together with the outcome of the meeting, to the attention of the Minister for the necessary subsequent evaluations and decisions. At the end of the meeting, Mayor Caruso reiterated that the Committee will carefully monitor the evolution of the issue, informing the Ministry from now on that a public mobilization will be encouraged to have the infrastructure built, now absolutely decisive for the development of the Calabria and the entire South for the next 100 years and more
