Railway stations increasingly connected with the territory thanks to multimodal and sustainable urban mobility.
A new design approach is underway that redevelops and redesigns the areas surrounding the stations, to transform them into real hubs of public, shared and more ecological mobility and promote the modal shift towards means of transport with low environmental impact.
The agreement between Lombardy Region and Italian Railway Network (lead company of the Infrastructure Hub of the FS Italiane Group) was signed by Lombardy region and from Italian Railway Network.
The agreement defines a strategic program and identifies a list of station areas where co-financing and carrying out the reorganization and rationalization of the squares and access roads, restructuring and reorganization of the bus terminals, strengthening of the cycle-pedestrian network between stations, historic and main centers territorial attractors (such as high schools or hospitals), opening of new underpasses, speed stations and areas dedicated to parking bicycles and sharing mobility vehicles.
All this, facilitating and speeding up the interchange and integration between the different means of transport.
The interventions, for a total amount of 41 million eurosare financed by the Lombardy Region, from the European Regional Development Fund 2021-2027 and by the Italian Railway Network, with funds from the MIT-RFI Program Contract.
The regional council has already approved the measure, called “Urban multimodal“, which ensures the financing of the projects presented by RFI together with the Municipalities served by the stations included in the plan, with the PR FESR 2021-2027 funds relating to policy objective 2.8: “promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility, as part of transition to a net zero carbon”.
With the signing of this agreement, the resources of RFI and the Regions are, for the first time, converged in a territorial scope wider than the perimeter of RFI assets.
It is a shared intention to continue in this direction to ensure continuity in the technical analyzes and constant updating of the strategic objectives in order to identify further co-financing opportunities.
Source FS News
