(Adnkronos) - Era il 21 settembre 1924 quando Re Vittorio Emanuele III tagliò il nastro per l’inaugurazione della A8 Milano-Varese, oggi gestita dal Gruppo Autostrade per l’Italia (Aspi).
Un’infrastruttura fortemente voluta dall’ingegnere, imprenditore e costruttore milanese, Pietro Puricelli. Anche grazie a lui, dopo 100 anni possiamo dire che quello fu l’inizio del futuro per il nostro Paese.
Un’infrastruttura fortemente voluta dall’ingegnere, imprenditore e costruttore milanese, Pietro Puricelli. Anche grazie a lui, dopo 100 anni possiamo dire che quello fu l’inizio del futuro per il nostro Paese.
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00:00It was September 21, 1924, when King Vittorio Emanuele III cut the ribbon for the inauguration of the A8 Milano-Varese,
00:13today managed by the Autostrade Group for Italy.
00:16An infrastructure strongly desired by the engineer, entrepreneur and builder Milanese Pietro Puricelli.
00:23Also thanks to him, after 100 years, we can say that it was the beginning of the future for our country.
00:28On that single lane of the Milano-Varese, the first motorway in the world, the change began to flow.
00:35Italy was preparing to move from a rural economy to an industrial economy.
00:40The first motorway in the world that uses tolls to pay itself,
00:44a model that will then be replicated in different areas of the world as a structural element to develop infrastructures.
00:53Trust me, infrastructures in general are fundamental for the economy.
00:56We must try to have the vision and, let's say, the boldness,
01:01that is, the ability to risk to be able to imagine what the future will be.
01:06It will certainly be a complex future, but where intelligence and skills are the central element
01:11that characterized the development of the entire history of the country's infrastructure.
01:15In 1924, there were about 60,000 light vehicles, today about 40 million.
01:22In the A8 axis there were about 1,000, today 170-180,000.
01:28That of Puricelli was a vision project.
01:31Thanks to these infrastructures, the territories are developing
01:34and what was a small agricultural municipality has become an important city also from an industrial point of view.
01:42Today, thanks to a project to enhance the motorway group for Italy,
01:46the A8 is the first five-lane motorway in the country.
01:51There are almost 200,000 workers in the truck that cross it every day
01:57and therefore it is necessary to continue to grow.