After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
it first, in 250 BC, to transport 100 elephants captured in battle from Palermo, on the island of Sicily, to Rome. According to the Greek historian, they used empty barrels and wooden planks to build a temporary bridge across the Strait of Messina, a 3.2-kilometer-wide waterway buffeted by strong currents and winds. The elephants made it to Rome, but history doesn’t record if they did so by bridge.
“I am cautiously optimistic,” says Giuseppe Muscolino, a professor of engineering at the University of Messina, who was part of a governmental scientific committee on the bridge until 2012. “But all will be decided in the next few months.” “Since Italy was united in 1861, the bridge has been hailed as the savior of the rural south, to bring it in step with the industrialized north and the rest of Europe,” says Aurelio Angelini, a professor of sociology at the University of Palermo and author ofHowever, the idea has long been opposed by locals on both sides—on political, economic, and environmental grounds. But also, Angelini says, because of resistance to change.
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