Work on the new Brescia Est-Verona High Speed/High Capacity (HS/HC) railway line proceeds according to schedule. Italferr, an engineering company of the FS Group's Infrastructure Hub, will be in charge of Health & Safety Supervision, Works Supervision and Project Management during all phases of the project.
On 6 February 2023, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini visited the operational construction sites. Special attention was paid to the excavation of the second bore of the Lonato tunnel, one of the most important works of the new railway section. The excavation of the first bore was completed in September 2022.
Salvini was welcomed by Deputy General Manager Network Management Infrastructure of RFI and Government Commissioner of the project Vincenzo Macello, as well as by the President of Cepav Due, Franco Lombardi.
The Lombardy Region's Councillor for Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Claudia Maria Terzi, the Prefect of Brescia, the mayors of Lonato and the Managers of RFI and Italferr also attended.
The HS/HC Brescia East-Verona line under construction will run alongside the conventional line, crossing the Lombardy and Veneto Regions, through 11 municipalities in the provinces of Brescia, Verona and Mantua (the latter by road works only), and will include the construction of a rail route about 48 km long, including 2.2 km of the "Verona Merci" interconnection with the Verona-Brenner rail axis. The project also envisages the construction of a total of 4 viaducts, 15 overpasses, 4 bored tunnels and 17 cut&cover tunnels.
The project, financed with funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), is one of the pieces of the ‘Mediterranean’ Core Corridor that will connect the ports of the south of the Iberian Peninsula with the Ukrainian border, passing through the south of France, Northern Italy and Slovenia and a section in Croatia.
The completion of the Milan-Verona line will make it possible to reduce interference between different transport flows, making circulation smoother and increasing traffic capacity at the Brescia and Verona railway hubs. This will bring benefits in terms of the regularity and punctuality of long-distance and regional rail services as well as of freight transport.