#Italy Bridge to Sicily; missing taxis in Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
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#Italy Bridge to Sicily; missing taxis in Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-says-it-will-build-the-longest-suspension-bridge-in-the-world-dont-hold-your-breath-71b7cc86
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:34.8 | This is CVSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Italy, Lorenzo Fiore of the Anzalda Foundation, |
| 0:41.5 | he's in Genoa, reporting on a project, a great, big, powerful project of a bridge, |
| 0:49.5 | that Lorenzo has been speaking of and dreaming about many decades. Italy says it will build |
| 0:57.0 | the longest suspension bridge in the world, reads the Wall Street Journal headline. |
| 1:02.1 | Plans for a structure connecting Sicily and mainland Italy have existed for decades. |
| 1:07.7 | Someone who has been with those plans for decades, Lorenzo, a very good evening too. We've |
| 1:12.8 | talked about this over the last two years, and I'm given to understand its controversial, |
| 1:18.6 | but the Wall Street Journal piece makes it very clear that there is momentum for it, |
| 1:24.8 | and the Maloney government is not hostile to it. What is it meant to achieve? What will it |
| 1:30.3 | connecting the mainland to Sicily? Who will benefit? Good evening, too. |
| 1:35.1 | Good evening, John. Good evening. You told the radio list. Let me tell you that from one side, |
| 1:39.6 | I'm a bit smiling and laughing, because the last year of my university, Milan, |
| 1:46.4 | back more than 40 years ago, not 35 years ago, 40 years ago, I was making some engineering study |
| 1:55.6 | regarding the feasibility of such a bridge, which is a marvelous bridge that is going to connect |
| 2:02.0 | Sicily and Calabria, and to a certain extent, in my opinion, there will be a lot of benefits to |
| 2:07.6 | Sicily. Sicily is a fantastic island. US people know very well because during the Second World War, |
| 2:14.2 | the Americans came to Sicily first to Italy to make our nation free from fascists and nazists, |
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