unfinished works, Codacons: “Increase in two years from 692 to 868, cost 4 billion” – The Daily

Bridges, roads, dams and infrastructure of national interest, started and never completed. Cost 4000000000 . Other 1.4 would cost to complete them. And ‘the cost of the public works unfinished , according to the calculations of Codacons. The Consumers’ Association went to comb through the registrar of the works and has calculated the difference between 2013 and 2014 (latest year available). The result is disheartening: in Italy there is a “ abnormal growth of unfinished works, whose number has reached 868 .

In 2013 they were 692 : in 2014, the latest figure available, rose to 868. in total, costing 4 billion euro. The negative record is up to the Sicily , a region that sees well on its 215 unfinished infrastructure territory (the absolute maximum value even if the growth is because the year preceding the region did not disclose the number of unfinished). In Abruzzo the infrastructure not fully executed rose from 33 in 2013 to 40 in 2014; worse than the situation of the Calabria : 64 unfinished in 2013, 93 in 2014, while in Lombardy in a year unfinished works increased from 19 to 35. Also hurt the Apulia : 59 in 2013, 81 in 2014.

“This infrastructure has already cost an average 166 € in the family, and to bring them to fruition serve others 1400000000 EUR – said the President Carlo Rienzi – resources excluded from the community forced to finance dams planned in the 60s and then left in a state of disrepair, opened ports and never used, roads that lead nowhere because left half, unused facilities due to high

the” record of waste “it is no doubt – according to the association – the sports City of Tor Vergata in Rome, has cost the citizens than 607000000 €. What remains of the project is the skeleton of the Sail of Calatrava, a true urban monster that hurts the city and residents of the area, and should be immediately shot down.

The phenomenon of unfinished works, however, it is absolutely cross : crosses Italy from north to south, and unites modern and advanced regions such as Lombardy and the Veneto to areas less developed the South, proving that waste have no political color or territorial differences. “And to think – says Rienzi – the billions spent so far on using those facilities unfulfilled, they could break down the tax burden for all citizens and prevent the birth of taxes such as’ IMU or Tasi , with immense benefits for the community and the national economy. “

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