Autostrade, Giovannini: “The safety phase will continue for years”

“The safety phase of our motorway network will last for years”, which goes back, “like other European networks” to the “post-war period”. It was the Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, who clarified this by speaking at ‘Sabato too’, hosted by Enrica Belli and Pablo Rojas on Rai Radio1. “We must not forget what unfortunately still happens in Liguria where there are many galleries. The new guidelines issued by the ministry to secure the galleries have imposed a lot of work on the managers and this naturally creates discomfort for travelers. Here is this phase of mass. in the safety of our motorway system it will last a few years, it is not something that can be solved in a few months “said Giovannini. “The crucial point – continued the owner of Mims – is that we have tried to do it in the most coordinated way possible, in order to avoid scattered construction sites”. “Our infrastructural network, like other European ones, built after World War II, needs a huge investment in maintenance and we are doing it also thanks to the PNRR and also in the direction of digitization” added Giovannini. On the safety of the motorway network “there has certainly been a leap in quality both in the rules and in the implementation of the works that require compliance with these rules”, he underlined. is said to “agree with the Nobel Prize in Physics Giorgio Parisi” who yesterday – in the Chamber of Deputies – issued the harsh warning that measuring the economy with the criterion of GDP growth does not meet sustainability criteria and is incompatible with the fight against climate change. Giovannini argued: “Of course I am very pleased that the theme has been captured again by the media, it is a theme that was posed in 1972 when the report on the limits to growth already showed that around 2020-2030 humanity would encounter enormous problems. precisely because of a quantitative growth that would not necessarily have produced improvements in the quality of life “. “And 20 years ago, when I was director of statistics at the OECD, we began this battle, which is now recognized all over the world, as a necessity, that is to change the parameters with which decisions are then made and also in Italy, in the my role as president of Istat, we have developed the Bes indicators – Eco-sustainable wellbeing “, underlined the minister.