The first stone of the Metro D of Romebut problems are already revealed regarding the realization costs of project Which, according to the Campidoglio project, will serve to improve the city connections between the south and north – west of the capital. Metro D began to speak back in 2007, but in the classic of Italian procedures everything is proceeding at a very slow pace. Only this year, in fact, will the surveys in the subsoil of the city, with the price initially estimated to 3.5 billion euros (in 2010) now tripled a 9 billion euro.
Metro D in Rome, costs tripled for the project
From Metro D in Rome We have returned to speak after the Councilor for reference in the last session of the Mobility Commission Eugenio Patanè He reported that the goal of the administration in the new year is to understand the technical and economic feasibility of the project From 2010. This, it appears quite clear, must be updated both in its structural and investment parties.
Initially the expected expenditure had been of 3.5 billion In project financing with conduct, but today, due to the new regulations and the increase in the costs of the materials, the estimate comes at least to 9 billion eurosmore or less triple.
Updating the project
To update the project of 2010the Capitol has decided to rely on Metropolitan Rome which, first of all, will have the task of identifying a deposit for trains in the north and south area of the new line.
They will then be carried out, by 2025 according to Patanè’s words, i surveys along the various sections to present “in the shortest possible time” and in a “as unitary and overall possible” way ” feasibility project Technique and economic.
“One of our obligations – said the Councilor for Mobility during the Commission meeting – was to verify whether that route of 2010, 14 years later, with the changes that the city has undergone in the meantime, responded to the public interest “. Thus we arrive in Rome Metropolitan who was commissioned to study possible planning alternatives in concert with the mayor Roberto Gualtieri and the Department of Urban Planning.
How will the metro D of Rome be
As previously mentioned, the Metro D of Rome It comes from the desire to improve the connection – at the moment it must be said very complex – between the area North – East and South of the capital, also putting the new route with the other lines already existing in the city in communication.
The hypothesized route should be about 30 kilometers and consisting of 30 stations, already dropped to 22 according to different readings, but only the preliminary surveys of the subsoil will be able to say whether this project is feasible or not. As for the terminus, it will go from Nomentana Gray to Vineyard Walingwith the line that will cross the Metro B1 to Jonio, the metro a to Barberini and the Metro C in the new station in Piazza Venezia.
There are also the stop points of the project that according to Councilor Patanè will not be able to undergo changes. This is the “exchange with the Trastevere railway station” to then arrive “a EUR Fermi”, crossing “with the metro B to EUR Magliana and the one with the State Railways at Villa Bonelli “. And again, the trains of the new meter D will be 70 meters long and will be able to transport up to 750 people (20 thousand passengers per hour by direction) with passages foreseen every 90-120 seconds. Utopia, it should be noted, given the current condition in which the metro of the capital focus, but as long as you are in the case of the hypotheses it is legitimate to dream.
