Memorandum of understanding between the Municipality of Catania, Italian railway network and FS urban systems for the infrastructural strengthening and urban regeneration of the abandoned or disused areas owned by the FS Group present in the Sicilian city. The protocol was signed by Enrico Trantinomayor of Catania; Dario Lo Boscopresident of RFI; Umberto LebrutoCEO and general manager of Fs Sistemi Urbani, in the presence of Luigi FerrarisCEO of the FS Group, e Paolo La Grecadeputy mayor with responsibilities for urban planning, mobility and relations with the University of Catania.
L’agreement provides for the establishment of a control room and a technical table with the aim of defining and developing the strategy and interventions. In particular, the companies of FS RFI Group and FS Sistemi Urbaniand the Municipality of Cataniawill work together to promote and encourage efficiency measures for the rail and road transport system, through the improvement of modal integration, the mending of the city’s urban spaces and the strengthening of the overall attractiveness of the areas (for example former freight yards and former railway workshops, also through the inclusion of new public and private services).
“The signing of the memorandum of understanding with the Municipality of Catania – says Ferraris – is a clear example of how the FS Group intends to design and create integrated infrastructure works, which are first of all shared with the territories and which produce value and benefits for the affected communities. This agreement is the beginning of a path that has the aim of providing citizens with connected and intermodal mobility services and redeveloping urban spaces that are currently unused, making them attractive and centers of services and useful functions”. “Through the construction of these railway works – added Mayor Trantino – Catania will be able to benefit from rail mobility corridors, whether regional, national or international, to connect Sicily to the European continent. Interventions of fundamental importance for the railway system also in view of the Bridge over the Strait, which also have the extraordinary advantage of restoring to the City of Catania the relationship with the sea, denied for over 160 years by a railway belt which has prevented a virtuous osmosis of the collective well-being of the citizens of the Etna metropolitan area”.
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