Today, Thursday 22 December, as announced by the then Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, the works of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria are closed. The notorious A3 motorway, abandoned for decades in conditions not exactly in line with modernity, is now open to traffic in its new guise: with the opening of the Larìa Tunnel (Cosenza) the works started in 1955 are completed, which will make it passable with three and two lanes in each direction with motorway standards. To inaugurate it, the Minister of Infrastructure Graziano Delrio and the President of Anas Gianni Vittorio Armani walked the entire route, together with journalists: waiting for them at Villa San Giovanni, the last stage of the celebratory journey, was also the Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni .
“For too long – said Transport Minister Graziano Delrio – this was a place where the 'ndrine ruled. Now the symbol of an honest and clean South”.
Meanwhile Anas, in agreement with the Government and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, has already launched a maintenance plan of over 1 billion euros, already fully financed, for the implementation of interventions on a 58 km stretch between the provinces of Cosenza and Vibo Valentia, in stretches already characterized by four lanes and motorway standards. In addition the A3 is preparing to become the first Italian smart road, i.e. the first technologically advanced motorway in the world ready for self-driving cars, but also capable of optimizing - with real-time information - traffic flows, thanks to latest generation technological infrastructures. The action plan will end in 2020.
