Termini Station, lifts – BBC

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Milan , Sept. 7, 2015 – 08:10

     
     
 

For December 8, even more new terms. It will not be a total makeover as it did for the 2000 Jubilee, but Romans, tourists and pilgrims will find in any case a station bigger and more modern. Because the real news will be a new plan: we can now call the “first floor” of the station, whose work continues at a slow pace because everything is ready for December.

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There are two thousand square meters of new gallery , obtained on a large top plate, where It will be accessed with two elevators crystal and a battery of escalators exactly equal to the one that leads to the underground, as well as a wide scale in granite. And here will be the “living room” of terms. A waiting room with comfortable chairs to wait for trains and not standing as it does now in the gallery in front of the rubber scoreboards, adequate sanitation (finally), shops and open spaces especially for food, a little ‘as found in airports. A plate made from scratch in parallel to the tunnel that joins with Via Marsala Via Giolitti “totally earthquake – explains the designer, the architect Susanna Bernardini – and absolutely fire with Serrane that interrupt the flames, smoke detectors and air vents.”

An intervention of more than one hundred million euro for the company headed by Paul Gallo, CEO of Big Train, and at its conclusion (in 2017) will be provided with terms of more than six thousand square meters extra, thanks to the three new “islands” elevated. It will be much more modern. “The construction is made with the most innovative materials – says Susanna Bernardini – and does not cover the historical character of the station designed by architects Annibale Vitellozzi and Eugenio Montuori 50s. We worked with the superintendents from the beginning and even the new windows to the tracks will resume the design of existing ones. ” There will be a ceiling light and the new plan will be connected with the historic building on Via Giolitti: a rearrangement consists of a kind of “box” of glass and steel.

“Here in this part from December will be especially services for travelers – explains commercial director Stefano Mereu – such as travel agencies, newsagents, tobacconists and over 1,500 square meters will be dedicated to catering mainly Italian brands: there will naturally be room for organic, for vegetarians and those with special diets. ” And of course wi-fi access and ability to recharge mobile phones.

Great works under contract to the company of Claudio Salini , l ‘ entrepreneur Christopher Columbus died in the accident on less than a week ago. The family Salini has however guaranteed that “everything will go on as before, even now.”

And a new Terms for December in the tunnel current rubberized: disappear all box that you are today and where they are placed shops will be totally free for the many extra passengers expected in the Holy extraordinary. So there will be a greater range for walking, while the part above where today you can see the entrances of the offices will become high tech, with new technology solutions that will provide all the information to travelers.

September 7, 2015 | 8:10

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