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The agreement signed a year ago with the Emilia-Romagna Region has become reality: starting next year. On June 9th there will be four train runs per hour that will cross Bologna from east to west. With the service, which will only be fully operational from September due to work on some sections of the railway, it will be possible to go from Pianoro to Casalecchio (and continue to Porretta) without ever getting off the train. A ‘pass-through’ service, i.e. without the need to change trains at the central station. We begin by extending the Porrettana line up to Pianoro (Sfm1), with 62 new connections, of which 57 are ‘passing’, with runs from early morning to late evening and at full capacity even on Saturdays.
Trips within the urban area will be free for Tper season ticket holders, while a single trip will cost 1.80 euros. The Sfm5 Bologna-Modena line will then take off from December, while the first construction sites for the doubling of the Vignolese line will also start this summer. The innovation was presented today at Palazzo D’Accursio by the metropolitan mayor Matteo Leporethe CEO of Trenitalia Tper Alessandro Tullio and the regional councilor for Transport Andrea Corsini. “It will be a revolution for those who use public transport – said Lepore – which will allow them to use the train even in urban areas to cross the city every quarter of an hour. We want to ensure that more and more people use the train. With four trains l ‘Now the service for crossing the city is starting to be competitive.” For Corsini it is a “great strengthening, with a significant economic effort, not only to overcome the contingent problems linked to the construction sites in progress but to make a leap in quality and make the public service even more competitive”.
For the entire project, the Region has budgeted 11 million euros more per year, plus another 19 for the purchase of three new Rock and Pop electric trains with 300 seated passengers each to guarantee the increase in racing.
