Rfi studies the hypothesis of trains at 300 km per hour – Corriere.it
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From an isolated idea to an analysis by Confindustria. But soon the dream of the Adriatic regions of a high-speed railway line will be put on paper by Rfi. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has in fact asked the Italian railway network to prepare a feasibility study for a new railway section Bologna-Ancona-Pescara-Foggia-Bari, set back from the current one which runs alongside the sea and cuts the cities on the Adriatic coast in two. The feasibility study will be completed by the end of 2023 and at that point it will be possible to compare the costs and benefits of this new major work with the project to speed up the existing railway line.
The cost-speed comparison
The main comparison on cost and speed. A high-speed railway line from Bologna to Bari – like the one that changed mobility on the Tyrrhenian side – would cost between 40 and 50 billion euros. The trains could travel up to 300 kilometers per hour and times between South and North would be significantly shorter. In short, the gap that has been created in the last 20 years between the East and the West of the country would be bridged: just think that today it takes less time to reach Milan from Naples (4 hours and 30 minutes) than from Pescara (4 hours and 44 minutes), despite the latter distance (521 kilometres) being two thirds of the former (790 kilometres).
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