Sardinia is poorly connected to intercontinental air routes , has fewer ports than the rest of Italy , and internal transport is classified as "critical." In daily life, all of this impacts the mobility of students and workers , as well as access to healthcare services, as well as affecting "leisure and tourism." The new Regional Transport Plan (PRT) revolves around this geographic isolation—a brake on development recognized in the Constitution through the principle of insularity .
The Regional Council adopted it on August 7th. It is four hundred pages long, divided into two parts: one descriptive, on Sardinia's "peripheral nature"; the other operational, defined as the "Plan Scenario," covering the next fifty years, which includes a package of "priority interventions." The value: €1.8 billion to "reduce the deficit in major infrastructure funding."
Isolation is primarily a matter of routes: Sardinia is not a global destination . Its central Mediterranean location is negligible. The airports of Cagliari, Olbia, and Alghero combine " a maximum of forty intercontinental destinations connected by flights within five hours of travel ." From Rome onward, the figure exceeds 120. The economic burden is enormous: transport isolation penalizes Sardinia's GDP, which is 80% lower than the EU average.
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