To Innsbruck it is given the go-ahead to the realizzativa phase of the gallery of base of I tunnel railway of Brenner



Today to Innsbruck the approval ceremony has been carried out and start of the work for the realization of the gallery of base of I tunnel railway of the Brenner that, with two tunnel parallels to reduced slope, will connect Innsbruck with Fortress. The work takes part of the European Corridor 1 Berlin-Palermo. The base gallery will be long 55 kilometers and, once connected to south of Innsbruck with an existing underground interchange, it will create to longer the railway tunnel to the world (64 kilometers).

The cost of realization of the gallery of base agreed from Austria and Italy piles to about eight billions of euro, comprised the billetings for risks, that they will be financed by the two allocated nations and that they will include 786 million euros from the European Union for a reason or purpose of the budget IT TRY in the within of perspective financial institutions 2007-13.

The work of digging in the tunnels of exploration and access is begun in 2008. The agreement between Italy and Austria now allows the beginning of the relative work with the main gallery leaving from Innsbruck to north and Fortress to south. By 2016 the central part of the gallery between Ahrental and Trens will be dug and the project would have to be completed within the end of 2025.

"Today - the Italian minister of Infrastructures and the Transports has declared in the course of the ceremony, Altero Matteoli - it is indeed an historical moment for Italy and Europe. It is completed along iter progettuale and autorizzativo and the agreements between Italy are realized, Austria, Germany and the EU. An example of as it would have to act and to work Europe. When the tunnel will be completed, the advantages for the system of the transports will be enormous on iron are from the commercial point of view that tourist. Italy - it has concluded Matteoli - strongly is engaged so that this important pass of the Berlin-Palermo corridor sees the light".

To the ceremony they have participated, between the others, the vice president of the EU commission and in charge of the Transports, Siim Kallas, the coordinator of the nets TRIES Corridor 1, Pat Cox, the Austrian minister of the Transports, Doris Bures, the German undersecretary to the Transports, Andreas Scheurer, and the managing directors of Railroads of the State and ÖBB, Mauro Moretti and Christian Kern.

"The today's decision - European commissioner Siim Kallas has said - marks an important forward step. In these economically difficult times it is more important that never to invest in sustainable politics for transport European. Online with the objectives of White Paper on the future of the transports, the gallery of base of Brenner will supply a fundamental contribution to the rail shipment and the role that it carries out in order to return the transports in the alpine regions more efficient and sustainable".

"The today's decision - the European coordinator of the Pat Cox project has confirmed - testifies on target of the progresses put from Austria and from Italy in recent months as also from the platform for the corridor of Brenner and from others you leave from the beginning interested of this important priority project TRIES. It is I pay to those who they have worked with great engagement in order to guarantee the realization of what it will be one of the main European railway corridors. I would want moreover to pick this opportunity in order to pay a tribute to my predecessor, the Karel Van Miert mourning, for the fundamental role by him carried out in order to make to progress, in every single phase, a complex project as this".