Pietro Lunardiis an Italian politician and engineer... (wikipedia)
It is a situation of extreme emergency. It must be dealt with as soon as possible,
Now everybody will understand that we were not joking. The bridge is a great work which will unite Sicily and its six million inhabitants with the continent and for this reason it has enormous value socially, and for the urban and transport development.
This accident will help to improve the level of security,
There's every reason to thing there was something strange -- the kind of target and the way it was hit straight on is spooky.
It is unheard of that there should still be technical problems after such a long time.