Webuild, Vianini, Hitachi, Ccc and Cmb bump Gualtieri on Metro C in Rome
The Metro C Consortium (made up of Webuild, Vianini, Hitachi, Ccc and Cmb) warns the mayor of Rome Gualtieri and the chief of staff of MIT: "Money out, from here in a short time complete paralysis of the activities in progress"
In the last 30 years, while Milan was inaugurating the Yellow line which cuts the Lombard capital from North to South, the Lilla which leads to San Siro and carried forward, amid a thousand delays, the M4 project (it was supposed to provide a connection between Linate and the 'Expo…), Rome has tried to adopt the Metro C. With very little results.
All roads lead to Rome, but not the metro: it so happens that the eternal city is crossed by just 59.4 kilometers of metro, against 96.8 of what is increasingly defined as the "moral capital" of the country, i.e. Milan (which is 7 times smaller). If we then look abroad, it pales: Madrid has around 300km of lines, 294 to be precise, despite being smaller than Rome, Paris is close to 230 and London has over 400km.
DOES METRO C STILL STOP?
The first allocations for line C of the Rome metro, intended to cut the city from the north-west, in the Della Vittoria district, to the eastern suburbs extending beyond the Grande Raccordo Anulare for a total length of about 25.6 km and 30 stations passing for the historic center of the capital, were built in the early 1990s: it has been under construction since 2007 and has not yet been fully completed.
The last stumbling block that could block everything again concerns the receivables for around 50 million euros claimed by the builders against the municipal company in liquidation Roma Metropolitane which is not in a position to pay due to lack of cash and credit lines.
THE LETTER FROM THE CONSORTIUM TO THE MAYOR: OUT OF MONEY
Scalps Metro C SCpA , project consortium made up of 5 members – Partecipazioni Italia SpA (company of the WeBuild group), Vianini Lavori SpA, Hitachi Rail STS SpA, Cooperativa Muratori e Braccianti di Carpi, Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni for the construction of Line C of the Metropolitana di Roma – which took over from the Temporary Association of Companies with Astaldi as agent (wholly merged into the newly established company called Partecipazioni Italia SpA which sees the WeBuild Group as the sole shareholder) which was awarded the tender called by Roma Metropolitane for account of the Municipality of Rome for the construction of the third line of the capital's underground.
The Consortium that should go ahead with the work on Metro C speaks of a situation that has now become "unsustainable" in the letter sent, among others, to the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri , and to the head of the MIT cabinet. In short, the money would have run out and in a few days without new liquidity everything will stop, as reported in the letter published by Messaggero (magazine published by the Caltagirone group which owns the Vianini company ) : "The undue protraction is such as to determine from here to the complete paralysis of the activities in progress" and to "preclude the regular start of those" future, just now that a few steps had been taken for the section from the Colosseum station to Piazza Venezia, the fundamental hub of the project.
A few months ago, the government's extraordinary commissioner, Maria Lucia Conti , had signed an ordinance approving the definitive project and the economic framework of the trafficking. In December, the Campidoglio had received the go-ahead for the final design of the variant of the Fori Imperiali station of the line, the construction of which is scheduled for the beginning of the Jubilee of 2025. With the latest funds allocated by the government, the design of the two other sections, the T2 which reaches as far as Clodio and Farnesina, with the relative inspection excavations and the T3 which in the future will reach the northern outskirts of the city, up to Grottarossa.
The situation seemed to have unblocked following the passing of the latest Budget Law. On paper , another 2.2 billion euro is expected to be allocated over ten years to allow Metro C to complete its journey. The funds will be used in the initial phase to meet the higher costs of the T3 section, the central one and whose Porta Metronia station (formerly Amba Aradam) will open by the Jubilee of 2025.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/webuild-vianini-hitachi-ccc-e-cmb-tamponano-gualtieri-sulla-metro-c-di-roma/ on Mon, 08 May 2023 10:28:43 +0000.