Yes of the mayors to the project in more phases for the high railway speed Venice-Trieste



The Region Friuli Venice Julia has announced that in an encounter convened to Udine from president Debora Serracchiani and the city council member to the Infrastructures Mariagrazia Santoro, in which is illustrated in the details to the local administrators the decision taken from the Friuli Venice Julia and Veneto in the course of the last reunion to Rome with minister Maurizio Lupi, the extraordinary commissioner for the Tav, Bortolo Mainardi, and the managing director of RFI, Michele Mario Elia, the mayors of the Municipalities interested from the tracing of the high railway speed have substantially approved of the choice of the Region Friuli Venice Julia to realize the connection between Venice and Trieste with one project in more phases, more sustainable economically and less invasive.

The job that the Region has got ahead in these months - has emphasized Serracchiani to the mayors - it is not alternative to the project of the Tav, to which the Region he remains absolutely favorable, but taken into consideration all the criticalities of the tracing of 2010 is in the Veneto-Ronchi part of the Legionnaires is from Ronchi of the Legionnaires to Trieste and considered also the two deliberations of the committee of the October and last November that they indicated environmental compatibility problems and other criticalities of that project, the Region has considered to join to the proposal introduced from RFI in the last recent encounter to Rome.

The regional agency has explained that to RFI proposal it takes part on the overcoming of the necks of bottle - node of Udine, the Udine/Cervignano, junction Saint Polo and the income to Trieste - with participations of technological nature that will afford of velocizzare the net. Once carried out these work, that they preview a total amount between Veneto and Friuli Venice Julia of 1,8 billion euros, to prescind from the type of rotabile material - more or less ancient - the time in order to cover the draft Mestre/Trieste would come down to 1 hour and 8 minutes. Draft of participations that, among other things, will be compatible in case of start of the project of Ac/Av. A part of these participations already is financed, as the velocizzazione of the Venice-Trieste with the 30 million one decrees of "Making 1", a part has already seen to start the yards, as the node of Udine, where 10 million already are allocated and the remaining 60 are reserved in the next contract of program. It remains to finance the doubling of the Udine-Cervignano draft, that it piles to 250 million euros, the participations on the Saint junction Polo and Trieste and remains to find cover for 40 million euros necessary for the overcoming of level crossings.