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Thursday night on La7 broadcast In the air the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi confirmed that she had sent the government a plan to request 25 billion of the 209 billion planned for Italy by the European Union recovery fund. In the Rome City Council plan (PDF), funds are requested to finance various public works, including the infamous cable car that has been talked about since the 2016 election campaign. The project, including the Belsito-Medaglie d’oro hectometric connection » It should cost 35 million euros according to the forecasts of the board, which will be built in seven years.
The proposal is destined to provoke discussions and controversy, in a city where public transport is mostly deficient even in very central areas – not to mention the suburbs – and the buses themselves are so few that they catch fire with some regularity due to the use excessive and poor maintenance. In an article published today on Delivery courier, the university professor (and blogger of the Send) Marco Simoni writes:
It is not a plan, it is not a vision, it is a long wish list. 25 billion are requested for 159 different projects ranging from the creation of a rating of small and medium-sized companies, to innovative training in new professions (sic), to the Clodio-Monte Mario-Ponte della Musica cable car. Unfortunately, this is not a joke, the Rome City Council is asking Europe for money, among other things, for the famous cable car.
But the Recovery Fund, or rather the Next Generation EU, cannot be reduced to a hoax on the Internet, but to a fundamental crossroads in European history, in which the collective financial effort must correspond to a full responsibility of the territories and cities, which should at least try to measure up. It is a moment that defines an entire generation. […]
The rebirth of Rome goes through a new season of economic growth that does not come from the sum of many different spending items, but from the birth of new, genuinely innovative realities; growth and development of new sectors. Rome has many vocations, true, serious, deep. We must not come up with crazy ideas, we must think about multi-year programs, of the right size and ambitions, and then carry them out.
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