Mobility. M1 Monza Bettola extension, work has started at the Cinisello Balsamo station
Milan, September 30 2021 – Once all the agreements and commitments of the Municipality of Milan, MM SpA, the company and the operator have been defined, and all the necessary additional resources have been recovered, work restarts today for the construction of the Cinisello Balsamo station for the extension of the M1 Monza Bettola, which will be the new northern terminus of the red metro line.
This is a particularly complex construction site because it includes the construction of three works, a real hub: in addition to the M1 Cinisello Balsamo-Monza Bettola station, also the new shopping center and all the interchange infrastructures with a 2.500-space car park, the bus terminus coming from Brianza, the A4 Turin-Venice motorway, the Rho-Monza road connection, the freeway connecting to Lecco and finally the preparation for the future extension of Line 5 to Monza. Here several operators work in the same work areas, with particular overlaps in activities which required timely and precise coordination of interventions between the implementer of the new shopping center and the contractor entrusted with the construction of the extension of Line 1.
Cinisello Balsamo is a strategic station for the territory and for the mobility of the area north of Milan, an interchange hub between private traffic, surface lines, metropolitan lines of Brianza and much of the mobility of the north-eastern sector of Milan. Milan, where the greatest number of trips and cars to Milan come from.
The completion of the works with the commissioning of the extension of Line 1 to Cinisello Balsamo-Monza Bettola with the new two stations Restellone and Cinisello and the simultaneous opening of the new Shopping Center is expected by December 2024.
Last January MM Spa had concluded an agreement with the construction company reactivating the works in Sesto San Giovanni and Restellone for the surface improvements, allowing, among other things, the reopening of the road axis of via Gramsci in Sesto San Giovanni for the connection between Milan and Monza. The integration of the costs to complete the work was ensured with 15 million from the State in the budget law approved in December 2019, 9,2 million from the Lombardy Region and 7,1 million from the Municipality of Milan.
Updated: 30/09/2021