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Liguria region and region SOOTHE promote the insertion of the coastal Mediterranean arc in the nets TRY
The objective is the realization of a railway line to high ability between Genoa, Marseilles and Barcelona
December 15, 2011
Today the city council members to Infrastructures and Transports of the Region Liguria, Raffaella Paita and Enrico Vesco, have met the vice president of the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d' Azur (SOOTHE), Ives Petit, for a reunion turn to promote the realization of a railway line to high ability between Genoa, Marseilles and Barcelona.
The representatives of the Liguria and the region SOOTHE have engaged themselves to support, also in Europe, every useful initiative to the total acknowledgment of the Mediterranean Corridor inside of the trans-European nets TRIES. "The objective - the city council members Paita and Vesco have explained - is that to obtain the acknowledgment of the Mediterranean arc in the within of the rivisitazione of the nets TRIES by the European Parliament". "The completion of the high-speed line in the railway system of the region SOOTHES - they have added - effective only if will be integrated with the organic potenziamento of the railway line from Ventimiglia to Genoa, in coherence with the works of the doubling of the West from Liguria, the Knot of Genoa and the Third Pass".
In the course of the today's encounter the region SOOTHES has put in relief that the extension of the Mediterranean arc, beyond Marseilles, towards Italy in Liguria and Tuscany constitutes in fact one of the main European corridors and is burdened by alpine flows of traffic pairs to 18 million teu per year, equivalents to 40% of the transboundary traffic, with handling of 20.000 heavy means that journey with a Italy-Spain origin-destination.
"The two regions - they have concluded Paita and Vesco - play a central role in the portualità and have more and more need to make system".
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Today the city council members to Infrastructures and Transports of the Region Liguria, Raffaella Paita and Enrico Vesco, have met the vice president of the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d' Azur (SOOTHE), Ives Petit, for a reunion turn to promote the realization of a railway line to high ability between Genoa, Marseilles and Barcelona.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
