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·        Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Altero Matteoli Matteoli, the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Gianni Letta and vice European Commission President Antonio Tajani together with the President of FS Innocenzo Cipolletta and administration Director Mauro Moretti have opened the new line AV / AC Milan - Bologna, officially giving the green light to High Speed Italian

·        present on the Milan Undersecretary Roberto Amenities Castelli, President of the Regione Lombardia Region Roberto Formigoni, the Mayor Letizia Moratti of Milan and Bologna
President of the Emilia Romagna Region Vasco Errani, the President of the Province Beatrice Draghetti and Mayor Sergio Cofferati

·         the “underground fast of Italy” will link to 300 km / h and Rome   Milan in 3 hours and a half, to unite the Madonna and San Petronio need only 65 minutes

·        Milan also inaugurated the renovated Central Station  

Milan, 13 December 2008

Part High Speed Railway: high speed totally “made in Italy”. With the inaugural trip between Milan and Bologna representatives of the top institutions — national and local - and of industrial and financial world have launched official this new era of rail transport in Italy.

With the fast subway in Italy “the AV / AC, shortening distances, will connect the major cities of our country, where those currently living 40 percent of Italians.

Turin, Milan, Bologna Florence, Rome and Naples are now much closer, almost a single large metropolitan cities. One need only think of the time that trains Frecciarossa
will take to link Milan and Rome: no-stop race in 3 hours and 30 minutes this year, and only 3 from December 2009, when Florence and Bologna will be linked in half an hour.
And that’s not all. Are being studied, it also runs without intermediate stops for connect, from December 2009, according to market demands, to the Capital Milanese capital in 2 hours and 45 minutes, from Milan to Rome Tiburtina Rogoredo.

Thanks to the High Speed Railway Company to be able to count on a pair gain years, between Milan and Rome, 60% of the market. Because even those who normally use the car to move in the middle range - between Rome and Florence (about 290 km), Milan and Bologna (about 220 km) and Bologna and Florence (130 km) - will train in the most convenient and safe for the benefit environment.

The new High Speed / High Capacity Milano - Bologna was inaugurated Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Gianni Letta, the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Altero Matteoli and Vice President of the Commission European Antonio Tajani, together with the President of FS and Innocenzo Cipolletta CEO Mauro Moretti.

Milan at the Infrastructure Undersecretary Roberto Castelli, President Region of Lombardy Roberto Formigoni, the Mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti and Bologna President of the Emilia Romagna Region Vasco Errani, President of  Provincia di Bologna Beatrice Draghetti and Mayor Sergio Cofferati. In Capital Felsinea the Presidents of the Region and the Province are boarded in the Frecciarossa Return to Milan while the Mayor of the City, wearing his cap red chief, launched the convoy for the trip to the San Petronio Madonnina.

At the inaugural journey of the train Frecciarossa attended the Presidents and Managing Directors that, over the years, have been at the helm of succession Group company Ferrovie dello Stato engaged in the implementation of the System AV / AC Italian.

On arrival in Milan Central Station, guests of the Group Ferrovie dello Stato, accompanied by Mauro Moretti and Fabio Battaggia CEO Large Stations (FS Group), attended the opening party retrain and recovered the second largest rail terminal in Italy. After three
years of work, the station will reopen to the city environments and services that can promote a process of rehabilitation and development of neighborhoods and urban spaces surroundings.

Soon after, was given the start of the countdown, in simultaneously with Bologna and Florence, for completion in December 2009, the national network to high speed from Turin to Salerno, via Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples. Among 365 days, in fact, will be completed even new high-speed lines between Novara and Between Milan and Bologna and Florence. The start of the countdown is the commitment that Ferrovie dello Stato to assume facing the country. A deadline that will not only committed all railway workers but also All Companies and suppliers involved in the creation of more public Postwar significant from now.

Fast speed, reducing travel times and the reorganization Commercial services Eurostar, according to the urban basins served. These three points cornerstone of the mobility Italian national fruit of excellence that will change styles and quality of life. A benefit not only of travelers medium / long-distance, but also commuters and freight. Thanks to gradual transfer to the new network of fast trains and the freight trains are create the conditions to make a qualitative regional services, which can become real city services, more regular and more frequency.

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