Work officially started this morning on the Genoa Subport Tunnel, the first submarine tunnel ever built in Italy and the largest in Europe. It is a work that represents the excellence of Italian engineering and encompasses all the characteristics of a new way of conceiving infrastructure. Designed with environmental and social sustainability in mind, the new tunnel represents a turning point of strategic importance for the territory and for the country, improving both city connections and accessibility to the port of Genoa, among the top Italian ports in terms of freight and passenger traffic, a key access on the Mediterranean Sea to the European market for goods to and from all over the world. In fact, thanks to the opening to traffic of the new work, expected by August 2029, more than 1 million hours of travel time will be saved each year, with positive repercussions also in environmental terms. The city will also gain 10 hectares of new urban surface parks, which will benefit communities. The tunnel project, in fact, was born as a true urban redevelopment plan, as well as a transportation one, setting itself the goal of contributing to the strengthening of the urban green network, going on to stitch up heavily anthropized areas with the creation of three new public parks and bicycle and pedestrian paths capable of enhancing the pre-existing buildings. The new parks will thus become an integral part of Genoa's landscape system, recalling its characteristics and the history of its territory, its gardens, parks, squares and waterfront, in favor of a structural continuity of green systems to defend and support environmental quality and biodiversity.
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