EC Finances 11 Large Railway Projects
December 5, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The European Commission (EC) approved 11 financing decisions worth over € 1.7 billion under the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) program for the period 2007-2013.
The decisions concern important railway projects in Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia and Hungary.
EC vice president Antonio Tajani, responsible for transport, signed the approval papers on Dec. 5 in Verona at a conference discussing the future of TEN-T policy.
"I am particularly proud to announce the adoption by the Commission today of these 11 funding decisions. They will greatly contribute to making the Brenner Tunnel and the Mont Cenis Tunnel, between Torino and Lyon, a reality and to start with the preparation of the railway line between Trieste and Divaca," said Tajani.
"Investing in key European transport infrastructure today is a demonstration that the European Union can respond to the economic crisis, in the short term by accelerating infrastructure projects, and in the medium term by creating the core rail network that will sustain Europe's competitiveness and meet the challenge of climate change."
During the conference, Paolo Costa, chairman of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament (EP), highlighted the support of the EP for the trans-European networks, while Karel van Miert, a European coordinator, underlined the importance of a coordinated approach to the development and implementation of these priority projects from one end of the line to the other.
The 11 financing decisions concern the following projects:
- Railway line Lyon-Turin: access route to the base tunnel in France (€ 4,700,000)
- Railway line Lyon-Turin: studies and works for the cross-border section (€ 671,800,000
- Design studies for the section between Ronchi dei Legionari Sud and Trieste (€ 24,000,000)
- Design and studies for the cross-border between Trieste and Divaca (€ 50,700,000)
- Preparatory studies for the line between Budapest-Keleti/Miskolc-Nyíregyháza (€ 8,000,000)
- Studies/works for the south access to the Brenner Tunnel between Fortezza and Verona (€ 58,810,000)
- Works on the section between Erfurt and Halle/Gröbers (€ 57,000,000)
- Works on the section between Kundl/Radfeld and Baumkirchen (€ 58,300,000)
- Studies for the Brenner Base Tunnel (€ 193,350,000)
- Works on the Brenner Base Tunnel (€ 592,650,000)
- Railway node Genoa: studies on the modernization of Genoa Voltri-Genoa Brignole (€ 5,050,000)
Verona was chosen to host the conference because it is at the crossroads between the Berlin-Palermo (Priority Project No. 1) and the Lyon-Budapest line, which also crosses the Trieste and Divaca (Priority Project No. 6) railway axes. Thus, Verona plays a central role in north-south and east-west traffic.
The EC has decided to finance, over the period 2007-2013, significant shares of the projects that make up these two railway axes.
Source: European Commission.