M4, Sala pungola Salvini: “Since the works started, six ministers have alternated”. The leader of the League: “But now there will be only me”

The section of the M4 up to San Babila was inaugurated this morning. With the opening of the new Tricolore and San Babila stops, the metro will connect the airport to the city center in 12 minutes. Mayor Beppe Sala, Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini and Pietro Salini, managing director of WeBuild, leader of the M4 construction consortium, were present at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “It is an epochal event for our city”, commented the mayor Beppe Sala.

Immediately an exchange of jokes between the mayor and Salvini, a curtain that did not go unnoticed. “Six ministries have changed since work on the M4 began,” Beppe Sala said during his inaugural speech. The response from the Minister of Infrastructures came immediately after: ”Beppe said that he has seen six of the Ministries of Infrastructures. I count that in the next few years you will only see one inaugurating everything there is to inaugurate. Because this fills me with enthusiasm and joy. I take your cue: infrastructures have no political colour, a subway is neither right nor left”. “By next year – said the mayor – we will open the rest of the line: 15 kilometers and 20 stops, and when we open the section up to San Cristoforo we have spectators that there will be 86 million transits a year, an incredible number but it is what is needed if we want to keep Milan among the large modern international cities that look ahead”.

It is, he added, an “ultra-modern and telematic line. We are here to celebrate but we are already moving forward thinking about the change in mobility: from the subway to Baggio, to the M6. When I became mayor we were at 10% now we are at 90% and there is one year left to complete everything ”. While Salvini said: “Two stations that make a dream come true: connecting Italy in the next five years will be able to experience an infrastructural, industrial, environmental, economic and labor revolution, a tale of what our grandparents experienced after the Second World War”. “Like when they built the Autostrada del Sole there were those who said no – added the minister -. Even today there are some resistant and nostalgic of the no but if we sanction that Milan is instead the homeland of yes, of doing , of planning that we will do a great service to the country”. At 13 the blue line opens to all citizens who will be able to travel for free today. In the afternoon the party will continue between Corso Concordia and Corso Indipendenza where the construction sites have been eliminated