Project for the realization of a travelling freeway on the railway draft Prato-Bologna



The railway connections of the Tuscan ports of Livorno and Piombino with the European markets will be upgraded with the realization of a travelling freeway on the Prato-Bologna draft that will involve an investment of 330 million euros. The project is announced today in the course of the forum "throws again of the cities. Economy, infrastructures and government of the territory" held to the Center for Arte Contemporanea "Luigi Pecci" to Prato.

The project previews that, in the optical of the potenziamento of the European Corridor the Scandinavian-Mediterranean, the railway galleries of the Prato-Bologna draft are risagomate in order to improve relative the current standards to the flow of the traffics. "Prato-Bologna - it has evidenced the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, Stefano Corsini, in the margin of the convention - is fundamental for the harbour system of Alto Tirreno. Through this important work, and thanks to the cross-sectional Florence-Pisa, Livorno and Piombino can reach the corridor of Brenner and straight aim for the markets of Europe center-oriental".

"Our harbour system - Corsini has remembered - already is connected with the Tirrenica line and today has a way of preferential outlet in western Europe. With Prato-Bologna and equally important works, as I climb over it railway that connect Livorno and the Interporto Vespucci and Collesalvetti-Go, the harbour system of Alto Tirreno can aim at to become, before other ports, a hub strategic for markets European".

Shortly the takeover of a technical table is previewed that will involve the Region Tuscany, the Region Emilia Romagna and Italian Railway Rete in order to begin to discuss about the work. The objective is to begin the work of modernization in 2018, with a forecast of completion in 2021.

Al forum has taken to part between the others the city council members of the Region Tuscany to Infrastructures and Tourism, Vincenzo Ceccarelli and Stefano Ciuoffo, and the vice minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Riccardo Nencini. "The ports of Livorno, Piombino and Carrara - Ceccarelli has commented - have been and will be object of great investments of infrastructural improvement and requalification. The investment that allows the passage of the container on the railway draft between Prato and Bologna is fundamental also for interposing you of Prato and Guasticce".