How Italy plans to invest 100 billion euros in rail within five years

Rome has great ambitions in the railway sector. Today’s Italy resembles France which, after the construction of the Paris-Lyon TGV, began to launch work on other high-speed lines to connect the entire territory. The new general director of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Stefano Donnarumma, has just announced in his strategic plan from 2025 to 2029 a strong acceleration of the group’s investments over the next ten years. After investing 157 billion euros from 1990 to 2016, or around 6 billion per year on average, FS had already moved up a gear thanks to the European recovery plan from which it benefited to the tune of 24.5 billion.

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Today, it is preparing to give a big boost, targeting 100 billion euros of investment in five years, or 20 billion per year on average. And the group is committed to maintaining this pace until 2034. But the plan will only be very partially…