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Italy’s Finally Building That Bridge to Sicily We’ve Been Hearing About Forever
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Italy’s Finally Building That Bridge to Sicily We’ve Been Hearing About Forever
After centuries of “What if?” and “Maybe next year,” the Italian government has signed off on the Ponte Stretto di Messina, a record-breaking suspension bridge that’ll span the Strait of Messina to connect Sicily to the Italian mainland. The numbers for this project are bonkers, staggering in their enormity. The bridge’s full length will hit 2.24 miles (3.6 kilometers), making it the longest suspension bridge in the world should it be realized. …
After years of negotiations and multiple aborted projects, the Italian government agreed on 7 August to what will be the longest suspension bridge in the world.
It takes courage and determination, Giorgia Meloni is right. To set up a work so risky and expensive requires a nice hair on the stomach. And they have it, the legisti I mean. Already national champions of great works in loss (Pedemontana Lombarda, Brebemi, Pedemontana Veneta, ...) will now pass to history, with the current government group. It is them, who until not many years ago thought of Sicily as an appendix of Africa. After 50 years of di…
Words from Fabio Florindo, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
The World’s Longest Suspension Bridge Rises in Italy, Connecting Sicily to the Mainland - Yanko Design
After decades of false starts, Italy's wild dream of connecting Sicily to the mainland is finally happening. The government just gave WeBuild the green light to build what will become the world's longest suspension bridge, stretching an incredible 3.6 kilometers across the Strait of Messina. Pietro Salini, WeBuild's CEO, seems genuinely excited about this one,
I have to acknowledge to the current government, to the current Parliament and to the Minister Matteo Salvini of having given back role and function to a project that risked to remain only a great intuition design, only a great need of our country and of the entire European Union but, I repeat, only an objective to be pursued. This government and Minister Salvini have given life to five passages, through which it is evident the correctness of th…
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