ITALY’s minister of infrastructure and transport, Mr Matteo Salvini, and the economy and finance minister, Mr Giancarlo Giorgetti, have approved the first tranche of funding, worth €362m, from a total budget for 2023 of €931m dedicated to investment in urban public transport transit schemes.
The money has been allocated as follows:
- €221.7m to Turin for the extension of tram Line 12 to Allianz Stadium and for work on the Turin - Ceres line
- €74.5m to Genoa for the extension of the light metro north to Rivarolo and the completion of Martinez station on the eastern extension to the line, and
- €65.9m to Milan for fire-fighting equipment upgrades on metro lines M1, M2 and M3.
In addition, the Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport has chosen the Italian-Spanish SSI joint venture of Fininc and Sacyr to finance, design, and build a 10.6km extension to the Catania light metro in Sicily.
The €650m project involves extending the standard-gauge light metro northwest from Misterbianco through the Ardizzone tunnel to Paternò. The extension will have four intermediate stations at Giaconia, Belpasso, Valcorrente and Gullotta.
The light metro is already being extended from Nesima to Misterbianco. The new extension will replace a section of the existing 950mm-gauge Circumetnea Railway, which also operates the metro.
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