Terzo Valico fundamental for Italy -Rixi

(ANSA) - Genoa, December 4 - The Terzo Valico rail link between Genoa and Novi Ligure is "fundamental for the whole Italian system," Deputy Transport and Infrastructure Minister Edoardo Rixi said Tuesday.
    The project has been pushed by the rightwing populist League, of which Rixi is a prominent member, but has been put on the back burner so far because of opposition from its government partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
    Rixi said it was "the most important of the major public works".
    He said the project had to make up for lost time because "in a normal country a project that dates back to 1992 would have been finished 10 years ago".
    Genoa Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco also weighed into the debate on Tuesday saying that not completing the work would be "suicide".