Florence tram
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| Basic information | |
| Country | Italy |
| city | Florence |
| opening | 2010 |
| operator | GEST |
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| Route length | 16.8 km |
| Gauge | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system | 750 V DC |
| Stops | 37 |
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| Lines | 2 |
| vehicles | AnsaldoBreda Sirio |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 14,600,000 per year |
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The Florence Tram is a modern tram network under construction in Florence , Italy. The overall system should include three or four lines in the final stage. The first route was officially opened on February 14, 2010. It is operated and maintained by RATP Dev, a subsidiary of RATP , the operator of the Paris urban transport network , as part of a concession awarded by the City of Florence following a tender process, with a term of thirty years . Until 2012 RATP Dev held 51% of the shares, 49% belonged to the local operator ATAF. Since RATP Dev took over this share in 2012, it has held 100% of the shares. The neutral operating name Gestione del Servizio Tramviario (GEST), in English simply tram company, is used. RATP Dev is working at the same time on the conception of the other lines (lines 2 and 3).
history
An originally steam-powered, later electric tram system had existed in Florence since the 19th century. This reached its greatest extent in the first half of the 20th century. In 1936 there were over twenty lines, including red line numbers . With the closure of line 17 Via dei Pecori - Cascine on January 20, 1958, the operation of the first Florentine tram network ended.
Planning for a new tram began in the 1990s. There is no connection between the old and the newly built tram network.
New tram network
T1 Leonardo
Line 1 is completed and opened on February 14, 2010. It has 14 stations over a length of 7.8 kilometers. On July 16, 2018, it was extended by the route originally called Linea 3 and now has 26 stations over a length of 11.5 kilometers. This means that the north of Florence is now also connected to the Careggi hospital.
It begins at a P + R car park at Villa Costanza in the municipality of Scandicci , which is directly accessible from the A1 motorway , where the coach house and the workshops are also located on the other side of the motorway, connected by a branch line . The tram continues along Via delle Sette Regole, Via Fabrizio de Andre and Viale Aldo Moro. Shortly after crossing the Greve river , it passes the city limits of Florence and continues through Viale Pietro Nenni. After passing under an intersection in a short tunnel, the route leads over Viale Francesco Talenti and Via del San Sovino to Piazza Paolo Uccello.
The Arno is crossed on a newly built bridge. The route now runs through the Parco delle Cascine along Via Stendhal and Viale degli Olmi. The route leads across Piazza Vittorio Veneto through Viale Fratelli Rosselli and Via Jacopo da Diacceto. The line ends in Via Luigi Alamanni, where line 2 joins, which also uses the line for the short section to Florence Santa Maria Novella central station .
After the southern bypass of the main train station, follow Via Valfonda and then turn into Viale Strozzi. After Piazza della Costituzione, follow Via dello Statuto, via Piazza Muratori, Via Guasti, Piazza Vieusseux and Via Gianni you reach Via Tavanti. Here it is divided: to the north it is traversed by Via Tavanti and Via Vittorio Emanuele II, to the south by Via Corridoni, Via Pisacane and Via Romagnosi. Both tracks meet again at Piazza Dalmazia and follow Viale Giovanni Battista Morgagni to the forecourt of the Careggi hospital.
The first section in the municipality of Scandicci serves to better develop the area south of Florence, in which there has never been public transport by rail.
A one-kilometer extension to the north via Viale Pieraccini is planned to directly connect the Careggi, CTO and Meyer hospitals.
T2 Vespucci
The T2 Vespucci line has a length of 5.3 kilometers with 12 stops and was opened on February 11, 2019. It ends at Amerigo Vespucci Airport , from where it crosses under the railway lines to Osmannoro and Pisa and then follows Via di Novoli. After the roundabout at Viale Forlanini, the Mugnone river is crossed. It continues through Via Buonsignori and Via Gordigiani, follows the banks of the Mugnone and reaches the site of the future station of the Firenze Belfiore high-speed railway , which it leaves again on Viale Belfiore. An extensive redesign of the urban space is planned here. It follows Via Guido Monaco and Via Alamanni, where it joins the route of line 1, which is used to the train station. The route reaches its provisional end point at Piazza dell'Unità Italiana.
The route originally planned from Piazza dell'Unità Italiana through the old town, which should have passed the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore , will not be pursued, not least because a citizens' initiative feared damage to the structure of the cathedral due to the possible vibrations. Instead, it is investigated whether the route can be taken over the route of line 2 to the junction of Viale Spartaco Lavagnini and then via this to the planned end point of Piazza della Libertà.
The line will be of crucial importance for traffic, because it will run through the most important urban development area, connect the airport with the future high-speed train station and open up the new university campus and the courthouse in Novoli.
An extension from Peretola to Castello is in the planning stage. It will connect the new offices of the Province and the Regional Administration and the Research and University Center of Sesto Fiorentino .
Planned lines
Line 3.2
A later network expansion is planned to the east, from the Fortezza da Basso through the avenues via Piazza Libertà, from where the route is to branch into two branches, a seven-kilometer-long route to Rovezzano and an eight-kilometer-long route to Bagno a Ripoli .
Line 4
Line 4 is initially planned from the former Leopolda station to Le Piagge. Some of the tracks on the former Florence - Pisa railway line are used. Later, an extension via San Donnino to Campi Bisenzio is planned.
vehicles
The vehicles used are so-called Sirio cars from AnsaldoBreda . These vehicles are also in use on the Italian tram systems in Milan , Naples , Bergamo , Sassari as well as in Athens , Gothenburg and Kayseri .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c lesechos.fr : La RATP met en service le tramway de Florence. Retrieved March 5, 2011 .
- ↑ GEST - Chi siamo (GEST - Who We Are) (website in Italian). Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.gestramvia.com/single-post/2018/07/15/Luned%C3%AC-16-luglio-apre-la-nuova-T1-Leonardo Information from GEST on the extension (Italian), accessed on November 29, 2018
- ↑ Message on line T2 on the operator's website, accessed on February 12, 2019
- ↑ a b http://mobilita.comune.fi.it/tramvia/sistema_tramviario/linea2.html project page for line 2 (Italian)
- ↑ Tramvia, la comunicazione dell'assessore Giorgetti in consiglio comunale. Press release from the city of Florence. Retrieved June 29, 2017 (Italian).
- ↑ http://mobilita.comune.fi.it/tramvia/sistema_tramviario/linea4.html project page for line 4 (Italian)
