12 March, 2007 |

All Italy can be crossed by train for 5 hours in three years

Almost in three years it will be possible to cross all Italy by train for 5 hours. Such announcement has been made today by the chief of the Italian railways (Ferrovie dello Stato) Mauro Moretti.
Moretti said that now the project of high-speed railways is realized only by half: the high-speed train connects Naples and Rome, Rome and Florence, and also Turin and Novara. But by December, 2009 it is planned to finish works on the high-speed branch line, connecting Milan with Bologna and Bologna with Florence, a branch from Turin up to Milan and then the road from Rome to Milan is to take only three hours instead of the present four hours, and the road from Naples to Turin will take only five “superfluous” hours.
Moretti has added that the high-speed railway network of 634 kilometers general length will connect about 80 % of the biggest cities of the country.
As the chief of the Italian railways has explained, the special attention is given a site between Rome and Milan: it connects the administrative and business capitals of the country, and many thousand passengers move on this route.
Earlier many Italians preferred to do such trips by the plane; however with introduction of new high-speed trains more and more travelers make a choice in favor of the railway.
Other architectural star - Zaha Hadid - will build new station in Naples under name Afragola (Napoli Afragola). Works have already started working in July, 2006, and the new Neapolitan station is to be built up to next year. In parallel major overhaul with reconstruction is spent at old central station of Naples. From last autumn the central station (Stazione Centrale) in Milan is being reconstructed. These works are to be ended by 2008.
 

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