Virginia Raggi, the mayor of Rome needs a cable car to escape from Campidoglio – Libero Quotidiano

Since on the ground the situation Rome it is what it is – holes and abysses with a few meters of asphalt road around it, a “flambus” a week (at night between 2 and 3 the nth half caught fire), mothers chased by wild boars in front of garbage cans overcrowded -, and that in the subway the situation is not better (yes all subway stations have been reopened after months and months but you travel “armed” even in the middle of summer and without even tourists in circulation), Virginia Raggi only has to cling to the sky. In a literal sense. Less than a year from the municipality, with the mayor grillina Attempting a desperate reconfirmation after 5 years of administrative misfortune, there is no better time for the so-called “rescue” Recovery fund. And could the now-famous Capitoline cable car proposal be missing from the shopping list with which you hope to get the substantial EU money? The one that should fly over the Grande Raccordo Anulare to the Battistini terminus? This is, as Il Sole 24Ore reconstructs, a highlight of the package that Virginia delivered to Palazzo Chigi with a “scientific” approach: “We presented projects for 25 billion – she explained to In Onda -, taking all those we worked on in 4 Now let’s see how many they are going to give us, but in the meantime I asked for them. ”While waiting for Conte’s response (who knows how happy and” available “the European partners will be when they read such proposals), the 5-star advertising machine. In the dossier you will find a bit of everything: from the extension of the metro lines to the new creation of line D, from interventions in schools to evergreen vocational training. But, then, here there is the old dream: the “eggs” suspended in the air with which, in Virgy’s intentions, the Romans should wave “goodbye” to travelers who get stuck in traffic (provided they have not chosen the practical skateboard with which to get – in the mayor’s imagination – to the center).

The judgment of an economist like Marco Simoni is severe: “Unfortunately, it is not a joke – he wrote in Il Delivery courier -, the City Council asks Europe for the money for the famous cable car ». Moral? “It is not a plan, it is not a vision, it is a long wish list.” If the Rays’ wish train doesn’t even go “backwards” but is attached to a rope suspended in the air, for the center-right it is nothing more than a confirmation of the separate plan from which Raggi envisioned ruling Rome. “This cable car is the typical fruit of the ideological abstraction of those who are convinced that they do not govern the capital but a small mountain town,” he explains to Free Andrea De Priamo, Fdi group leader at Campidoglio: «La Raggi inaugurated its mandate with a ‘no’ to the Olympics, now it wants to close with a ‘yes’ to a job closer to the needs of skiers than of the Romans ». In same line the leader of the Northern League, Maurizio Politi: «We are talking about an exorbitant expense for a work that does not correspond to the needs of the citizens: starting from the small number of people it can contribute. It’s good for group outings … ». What happens if the project does not pass the selection for Recovery? The Rays could take the good of the Provenzano minister’s jab to his colleague De Micheli: after the bike lane of the Strait – he ironically – “I hope nobody proposes the cable car or the catapult.” Well the latter is even more “green” and economical …