L’editoriale di Marco Travaglio: No Tav: Alta voracità. - Servizio Pubblico - Puntata 15

Marco Travaglio retraces the history of the Turin-Lyon railway in his editorial for Servizio Pubblico and illustrates the consequences of the Tav project. The Tav is harmful: it is harmful for the state coffers and for the tons of waste (including asbestos) that will be produced during the construction works. High voracity “The TAV was born 21 years ago, when the Berlin Wall had just fallen. Andreotti and Cirino Pomicino were in government, Lorenzo Necci was at the Railways. Then, by chance, Tangentopoli swept them all away” explains Travaglio, going back in the history of our Republic to 1989. Travaglio, in another editorial, explained the reasons for his No to the TAV: “It is a stillborn project and will be swept away. Obviously I am not against high speed in general. There are people who say that if it were up to us we would not have built the Milan-Salerno. What does that have to do with it? The Milan-Salerno is used by passengers, it is made to arrive sooner. The Turin-Lyon TAV is for goods, to make them arrive half an hour earlier. And to do this we are gutting an entire valley. With all the environmental risks that come with it, spending 20-24 billion euros. And the construction site that will end in 2035”. He comments on Caselli: “He is prosecuting some people who committed violence on the spot. What does that have to do with whether the project is good or not?”