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On 24 March 2009 was made the trial trip of the train “Freccia Rossa” is on high speed linking Rome and Milan in three hours. On the train with the President of the Council, Silvio Berlusconi, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Altero Matteoli, the senior State Railways and other leading institutions. The train traveled for the first time the new high-speed between Bologna and Florence, 78 km long of which 73.8 in the gallery, which reduces to just 35 minutes (currently one hour) the time between the two cities . As of December 12 near the new rail service will become a reality for all citizens, it would travel in just three hours between the stations of Rome and Milano Centrale.
”It is an historic day for the railways - said Council President Silvio Berlusconi .
Today opens the third phase in the history of railways, the first having begun in 1835 by train Portici-Naples, and then there was the Pendolino train, and now this record of up to 362 km per hour. The timeliness of this journey has been extraordinary - the premier has stressed upon arrival at the station of Rome Termini - it is extraordinary the aim of Railways have come to the Milan-Rome at the end of 2013 in 2 hours and 35 minutes . It ‘really a historic change.”

The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Altero Matteoli, expressed satisfaction with the outcome:”Being able to reach Rome by train from Milan in three hours is a sign of modernity, the capacity of our railways and, more generally, of ‘Italian business to be in the know and implement successfully the best technologies. On the happy occasion of the first voyage of the Red Arrow test between the two major cities of Italy in just three hours, a transport service that will become reality for all citizens as of next December 12 - added Matteoli - is worth recalling that ‘ high speed was designed by the Italian State Railways in 1986 and found that the government of the time confused and hesitant. It was in 1990, because of the then managing director of Fs, the late Lorenzo Necci, if the work go forward. This experience - continued Matteoli - must teach everyone that the public works, especially as the strategic high-speed, should be implemented more quickly than when they are designed, because they are really a driving force for wealth the economy of the country. Before you make before you can grasp the effects that are very positive. Today - concluded Matteoli - is the event to reiterate the firm intention of the Government to design and implement high-speed rail in the rest of the Italian territory to Palermo. A goal is not easy but possible if we continue to build on that determination and encouragement in recent months there have been. “

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