How much did Milan–Bologna high-speed railway cost to build?
The Milan-Bologna high-speed railway is the Italian high-speed line, 182 km long. The sixth chapter of Il Fatto Quotidiano's Il libro nero dell'alta velocità, a critical book of 2011, tabulates its cost of infrastructure as 1,482 million euros in the 1991 contracts, 7,150 million in 2006 Ferrovie dello Stato data and 7,950 million as a 2010 estimate.
Published project estimate
€7.95 billion
Approximately $10.54 billion
Cost basis: 2010
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2010
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Key dimensions
- Total lengthRFI (Linea Milano - Bologna AV)
- 182 km