How much did Bologna–Florence high-speed railway cost to build?
The Bologna-Florence high-speed railway is the Italian line, mostly in tunnel, that entered service in December 2009. The sixth chapter of Il Fatto Quotidiano's Il libro nero dell'alta velocità, a critical book of 2011, tabulates its infrastructure cost as 1,074 million euros in the 1991 contracts, 5,954 million in 2006 Ferrovie dello Stato data and 6,700 million as a 2010 estimate.
Published project estimate
€6.7 billion
Approximately $8.88 billion
Cost basis: 2010
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2010