Roberto Tomasi, managing director of Autostrade per l’Italia: “100 million euros were spent just for inspections in the area”
Genoa – “To carry out a complex project such as the Genoa gutter, more than 100 million euros were spent on inspections in the area alone and therefore thinking about changing the route by just one meter means starting again normally with evaluations, it is absolutely impossible. “This was stated by the managing director of Autostrade per l’Italia, Roberto Tomasi, in a hearing at the meeting of the Chamber’s Environment and Transport committees, on the level of investments of the group.
“Today’s words of the CEO of Aspi Tomasi definitively clear the field with respect to the alternative hypotheses of the Gronda of Genoa which gradually reappear “. This was stated in a note by Raffaella Paita, president of the Transport Commission of the Chamber, regarding the hearing of the CEO of Aspi Roberto Tomasi.” Faced with the re-emergence of rumors about the possibility of creating a single stretch of the Gronda – he continues – or that of the A7, I asked Tomasi to what extent such a hypothesis was really feasible on a technical level. The CEO replied that the complexity of the authorization process and checks make it impossible to think of to modify even a single meter the route, because doing so would mean starting from the environmental impact assessment. In support of his words, the CEO gave the very fitting example of the Bologna passerby, a case in which a change in the route during construction led to a final delay of six years. Tomasi added that, moreover, the construction of a single section would not achieve the objective of relieving the western area from the current traffic flows, which is the fundamental objective of the Gronda “. This, in short, concludes Paita,” is the technical reality on alternatives to the Gronda. So, no more inventions, no more imaginative hypotheses which are only political and would entail a further delay in a city that cannot bear the problems caused by the inadequacy of its infrastructures for much longer “.
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