Ready to reactivate Messina bridge (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 27 - Motorway company ANAS is ready to reactivate its Messina bridge company "if and when the government asks us to," ANAS President Gianni Vittorio Armani told ANSA after Premier Matteo Renzi said the project would be revived. Armani said the plan could go ahead again "especially now that in December the Salerno-Reggio Calabria (motorway) will be completed." He said "the project must be examined above all in the light of the development of high-speed rail in the Mezzogiorno towards Palermo and the narrowing of the infrastructure gap in the south. But the important thing is that, once it is decided what is to be done, there's n going back this time. The country cannot afford it".