Line C (Rome Metro)

Line C will be the third line of the metro system of Rome. It will be the first fully automated line.

The line is currently under construction, and the first part is scheduled to open by 2011. The line reuses part of the old Rome-Pantano railway, which is itself the last part of the old Rome and Fiuggi Rail Road. This railroad will be closed.

Construction

From August 2006 onwards archeological investigations took place before construction could start. The first construction sites opened in March 2007, on Piazza Roberto Malatesta, to construct Malatesta station. Lodi station followed one month later. [http://www.romametropolitane.it/Notiziario%20Cantieri/master%20Linea%20C.pdf Current situation of construction works. it]

In May 2008 two Tunnel Boring Machines were set up at Giardinetti [http://www.metrocspa.it/diario_del_cantiere.asp Constructor's website it] , and two months later the old Rome-Pantano railway was truncated at Giardinetti to allow restructuring of the old surface line, which will form part of the new metro. This stretch is scheduled to open in 2011 (Pantano-Centocelle), and to be extended to Lodi in 2012. The part of the line that crosses the city centre will then be opened up to Clodio-Mazzini in 2015, and further extensions could be operating by 2017.

Route

The route is about km to mi|34.5 long, of which km to mi|17.6 underground, and the rest in the open air.

Originally the two planned termini were Pantano in the east and Clodio-Mazzini in the north, but in March 2007, a northward extension along the Via Cassia was announced, with nine more stations up to Grottarossa. A depot is under construction at Graniti. The line will cross Line A at San Giovanni and at Ottaviano-San Pietro-Musei Vaticani, and Line B at Colosseo. At the Colosseo stop a public museum will be constructed in the station to display archeological material that was activated during construction.

At Pigneto an interchange will be built with a new railway station on the FR1. A station at Largo di Torre Argentina was originally planned, but cancelled because of the large amount of Roman and medieval material on that site.

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content =* Pantano
* Graniti
* Finocchio
* Bolognetta
* Borghesiana
* Fontana Candida
* Grotte Celoni
* Torre Gaia
* Torre Angela
* Giardinetti
* Giglioli
* Torre Spaccata
* Alessandrino
* Parco di Centocelle
* Mirti
* Gardenie
* Teano
* Malatesta
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* Lodi
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* Amba Aradam
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* Venezia
* Chiesa Nuova
* San Pietro
* Risorgimento
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* Clodio-Mazzini

Other new stations will be:
* Vignola
* Auditorium
* Farnesina
* Giochi Istmici
* Giochi Delfici
* Parco di Veio
* Villa San Pietro
* Tomba di Nerone
* Grottarossa

Extensions

Extensions have been studied
* northward (towards the railway ring around Rome, and the Rome-Viterbo railway, to which it would give access at Tor di Quinto; this extension would count five stations in total and allow interchange with FR5 at Vigna Clara and Tor di Quinto.
* a southward extension of one station to Tor Vergata, where a secondary depot might be constructed.
* another southward extension of five stations from Teano to reach Ponte Mammolo, allowing interchange with Line B. This extension would also meet FR2 at Togliatti.

References

Maps

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* [http://www.comune.roma.it/was/repository/ContentManagement/information/N1570319305/fig2.jpgOld map of planned new lines] , from the website of the Municipality of Rome.