the Italian government announces ulterior investments in the railroads



Today the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, the managing director of Italian Railroads of the State, Renato Mazzoncini, and the managing director of Italian Railway Net, Maurizio Gentile, has introduced a new investment strategy on the Italian railway net. Delrio, Mazzoncini and Gentile have announced that this is translate already in concrete terms in additional resources, allocated with the Laws of Stability 2015 and 2016 and with I decree "Unblocks Italy", that is nine billions of euros that already have been destined to update 2015 of Contratto di Programma 2012-2016, that recorded August 2014 and to the State Audit Court has been 8 undersigned on June 16, 2015, plus others eight billions that will be soon object of update 2016.

The new strategy previews ulterior investments pairs to 1.308 million euro for the potenziamento of the transport of passengers in the metropolitan areas, on the regional lines (in particular Calabria and Sardinia) and for the development of the connections with the greater Italian airports. Moreover ulterior 758 million euros will be spold in order to improve accessibility and the services in the stations and in order to elevate the standards of quality and efficiency of the nets in correspondence of the metropolitan areas of Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence and Bologna. Other 1.200 million euros will be destined to the participations necessary to contain the risks in the galleries, the seismic zones and those subject ones to idrogeologico dissesto, and other 485 million euros in order to adapt the efficiency to the demanded increasing of mobility and to eliminate the technologically old and obsolete systems, in particular on the director Torino-Padova, the Bologna-Padua line and in the railway node of Naples. To this they will join 487 million euros for upgrading infrastructural and technological of the great railway corridors Florence-Rome travellers, Genoa-Ventimiglia, Milan-Bologna and Rome-Naples, other 264 million euros in order to upgrade the rail shipment of the goods from the economic heart of Europe until the Italian ports, along the great Corridors: The Mediterranean, the Rhine-Alps, Baltic Sea-Adriatic, the Scandinavia-Mediterranean and other 4.469 million euros in order to complete and to upgrade net AV and AC spine of the Country, continuing the horizontal axis Milan-Venice and realizing the Third Pass and the gallery of base of Brenner, and with the start of the works anticipated on the lines Naples-Bari and Palermo-Catania-Messina.