Bologna, 8 May 2024 – An intervention with a total value of 3.6 billion euros fully financed, for a work which will be ready in 2031 and that includes various benefits for the movement of goods from the port of Ravenna and for i commuters. Wednesday May 8th it opened public debate concerning the quadrupling of the railway route Bologna-Castel Bolognese, which will separate the high speed from the historic line. THE jobswith an estimated duration of five years and which include three design alternatives alternatively, they will leave in 2026 following a two-year period dedicated to debate andauthorization process.
The work
“A’critical infrastructure to relaunch not only Emilia-Romagnabut also the Marche and the entire Adriatic coast” declares the Deputy Minister of Transport Edoardo Rixiwho then specifies: “If this lot doesn’t leave, it goes in delay the whole Adriatic ridge“. The intervention in question, in fact, is introductory to that inherent to the whole Bologna-Lecce route and for this reason it was necessary to guarantee certain times for the success of the works. The purpose of these timing is to give to the industrial sector and to the operators of freight transport the possibility to organize e program one’s development.
The works for the quadrupling of the trade Bologna-Castel Bolognese will start from 2026at the end of Pnrrto be able to have the production capacity necessary. The making of this work has been included in the company’s projects for years now Emilia Romagna region and it consists of an important solution also regarding the problem of transport of the passengers considering the impossibility of increasing i flows immediately.
A job for the entire Adriatic line
“The intervention goes up to Castel Bolognese – recalls the general director of the Care of the territory of Viale Aldo Moro, Paolo Ferrecchi -, thus interconnecting with the Adriatic line For Rimini and for theRavenna port area where they circulate 9,000 trains per year. Compared to the general design alternatives alongside thecurrent line and in variant, the second, also in light of thefloodis preferable because it has less impact on hydraulic lattice, even if reflection on land consumption is needed. Certainly – he concludes -, we will go touncork’ the entire Adriatic line”.
“Fundamental work for the development of transport”
“The quadrupling Bologna-Castel Bolognese represents the first segment of strengthening of the whole Adriatic director. It is fundamental to the transport development and economical, and is the prerequisite for providing new services to passengers and to increase the regional transport and metropolitan, with more convoys and less waiting”. Thus comments the CEO and general director of the Italian Railway Network, Gianpiero Strisciugliowhich in the meantime confirms how the separation between the trackshigh speed and those of historical treatise, to be allocated to regional and metropolitan transport, will be able to carry benefits.
“As regards the three alternative alternatives – he concludes I squeak -, is planned adjacent to the motorway corridor instead of the railway the exit towards the south in Bologna For seven kilometers. Then i three tracks alternatives, close toA14, further north and further south. With the public debate, a project shared with the public will be built stakeholders“.
“The objective – explains the person responsible for the work Andrea Pillon -, is to present to entities And territory the project. Within two months, he explains, they will be completed four public meetings and three technicians with administrations involved. With a final report on suggestions, proposals and critical issues that emerged. At that point RFI will have two months to produce the final document and then it will open the design process with the start of the works expected in 2026“.
