Ok definitive of the French Parliament to the completion of railway line AV Turin-Lyon



With the ballot favorable yesterday of the Senate the green light definitive of the French Parliament has reached to the bill that authorize the approval of the agreement between the French government and the Italian government on the realization of the section of the frontier of the new railway line to high Turin-Lyon speed that had been undersigned on February 24, 2015.

Remembering that in Italy the provision, published in the official journal on 12 January, is already law, TELT (Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin), the society participated jointly from the French State and Italy through Italian Railroads of the State that is in charge of the work of realization and the management of the future infrastructure of the transboundary section of the railway connection between Turin and Lyon, has express great satisfaction for such approval and has evidenced that now they can moreover begin the yards of the tunnel of base of Contracted Moncenisio and that Regolamento becomes operating also, than for the first time in Europe previews the application of the normative antimafia independently givethe nationality of the yards.

"This event - it has emphasized the president of TELT, Hubert du Mesnil - is of great importance. It marks the beginning of the phase of construction of the project after a long period of studies, cognitive work and institutional procedures. It represents a success for the TELT team that has returned this decision and the confirmation of an assiduous and widely majority political will in both possible the States, without to forget the constant motivation, determining patient and of the European Union".

"With this decision - it has added the general manager of TELT, Mario Virano - it is written, with success, the last chapter of a twenty-year history, that it encloses engagement, job and concertazione. A iter that it has demanded seven italofrancesi summits and four bilateral agreements, in which the will of the governments always it is restated and strengthen. Turin-Lyon - it has specified Turn - is a work already under construction with 800 people engaged in the work. In Italy the cutter, arrived in the last meters of the exploratory tunnel, will exceed tomorrow (today, ndr) the border, while in France the digging of the geognostica gallery of nine kilometers is on, in the axis and of the diameter of the future tunnel of base of Moncenisio. To Saint-Martin-The-Door the technicians are operating in one of the geologic features more interesting complexes and than all the work, a study of the mountain that will allow to prepare the definitive work at best".