Premier Matteo Renzi said
Monday that the long-delayed upgrade of the Salerno-Reggio
Calabria motorway will be inaugurated in December.
"Let me do some social advertising," Renzi told a news
conference with foreign reporters.
"I know you won't believe it but, just like it seemed
impossible to finish the Variante di Valico (section of the A1
motorway near Bologna), we'll inaugurate the Salerno-Reggio
Calabria on December 22".
The poor state of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway and
the delays and rising cost of the upgrade have come to symbolise
the problems holding back the development of Italy's less
wealthy southern regions.
When Renzi inaugurated the Variante di Valico, a crucial
stretch of highway connecting northern and central Italy, last
December he said it proved his government had Italy moving
again.
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