(Finance) – During the initiative organized at“Ennio Morricone” Music Park Auditoriumwhich saw associations, institutions and technicians confront each other on the policies for the mobility of the Capital, themanaging director of RFI Vera Fiorani drew up the roadmap for i upcoming railway infrastructural interventions that will affect the city from now on to the next Jubilee events, and in the desirable scenario of Expo 2030. “Railway mobility plays a very important role for the city of Rome, and for this reason we are carrying out various interventions and investment programs to expand the offer available to citizens “, Fiorani intervened during the course of Rome starts again. The city connects. Innovation, sustainability, infrastructure, which, among others, was attended by the Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovanniniand the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri.
“We have two very well-defined time horizons in which we must guarantee this change of scenery, ranging from the Jubilee to 2030. For the first appointment – the CEO explained – we are already working to increase the frequency and number of regional transport trains, also thanks to the application in the Rome node of the same technologies that we find today on High Speed. Another fundamental point on which we have already taken action is that of improving accessibility to rail transport, with the activation of eight new stops.
The CEO of RFI – reads on FS Newsthe information portal of the Ferrovie dello Stato Group – therefore highlighted how the main actions will be focused on encourage the increase of the railway service through the use of the ERTMS system (European Rail Traffic Management System)while “the second step – continued Fiorani – instead concerns 2030, with the leading project of the closure of the railway ring. A first phase has already been completed thanks to the opening of the Vigna Clara – Valle Aurelia section, which allowed to activate 7 of the 12 kilometers needed to complete the loop and which will be doubled by the Jubilee. The second phase is now opening, with the start of the Public Debate for the completion of the section, an important appointment to discuss the project. ” activation of the ring – he concluded – represents a great opportunity to reread the railway junction of Rome, also thanks to the improvement of the interchange between rail and metro transport, and for this reason we must start working immediately to better support this change of approach to railway mobility “.
“The concept of interconnection applies above all to Rome, at the center of a railway, aeronautical and long-distance road transport system.interconnection will be further strengthened through targeted investments“, he has declared Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Infrastructures and Sustainable Mobility intervened in video link. “In Rome – he said – for the works of the Jubilee we have given the same procedures as the PNRR”.
“We have railway lines in Rome that already exist. We want to use them and integrate them into the underground network with new stops, increasing frequencies and stations. Building a station costs ten million against the billions of a new metro line. On the basis of this network we want making a sort of S-Bahn (Berlin urban railway network, ed) in Rome, a real surface underground network “. So the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieriduring the conference.