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The bridge was planned to connect Reggio Calabria to Messina, the two cities that face each other on either side of the strait, in order to form a single metropolitan area. This ambitious urban project was called Area Metropolitana integrata dello Stretto ("integrated metropolitan area of the strait") or simply Città dello Stretto ("city of ...
The Strait of Messina is a focal point in the migrations of birds every year, who mainly cross the strait to reach their breeding grounds in northern Europe. Due to this form of bottleneck more than 300 species are recorded in the area, which is a major European hot spot for raptors , with a record of 35,000 in one spring.
The President of the Scientific Committee Alberto Prestininzi (left) with Enzo Siviero in Messina in 2023.. On 19 September 2023, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), having restarted the process for the construction of the Messina Bridge with law n.58 of 26 May 2023 [5] signed by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, [6] appointed a new scientific committee.
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Strait of Messina Bridge Stonecutters Bridge Giorgio Diana (born 27 September 1936) is an Italian engineer, writer, and professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan .
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In recent years, there are ongoing projects aimed at regeneration of the city through works such as the waterfront, a new headquarters for the railway station, the bridge over the Strait. Messina is a city with an economy based on services, trade, tourism and a significant industrial activity in the shipbuilding craft.
William Christopher Brown South Wales, Great Britain (16 September 1928 – London, 16 March 2005) was a British structural engineer and bridge designer who specialised in suspension bridges. He is credited with the idea of designing bridge decks with an aerofoil -shaped cross section (in effect an upside-down wing ) for stability in a wide ...