Line 5 is an under construction line of the Milan Metro

Milan Metro

The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving Milan, Italy, operated by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi. Milan metro is the longest metro system in Italy, and is the core of the Milan Transportation System...

, Italy

Italy

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, that will connect the downtown Porta Garibaldi railway station

Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station

Milano Porta Garibaldi is a major station in the Italian city of Milan, located just to the north of the neighbourhood known as Porta Garibaldi...

 with the north-eastern suburb, at the via Bignami-viale Testi intersection. The line will be built in several steps, with the first planned to open in 2012 and the fourth in 2015. Further extensions are planned. The line will operate using AnsaldoBreda Driverless Metro

AnsaldoBreda Driverless Metro

The AnsaldoBreda Driverless Metro is a class of driverless electric multiple units and corresponding signaling system. Manufactured by AnsaldoBreda of Italy, it is or will be used on the Copenhagen Metro, the Brescia Metrobus, the Thessaloniki Metro, Line 5 of the Milan Metro, Line C of the Rome...

 vehicles, the same of the Copenhagen Metro

Copenhagen Metro

Copenhagen Metro is a rapid transit system serving Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Tårnby in Denmark. The system opened between 2002 and 2007, and has two lines, M1 and M2. The driverless light metro supplements the larger S-train rapid transit system, and is integrated with DSB local trains and...

. The headway will be 75 seconds.

The line is being built by the Metro 5 SpA consortium. The consortium signed the contract for construction of the Porta Garibaldi to San Siro section on 2 February 2011. After opening the consortium will manage the line for 25 years.

Works on the first phase are already finished, and the test period is in progress. However, a flooding forced to postpone the opening to the end of 2012.

Route

The first stage, 5.6 km long with 9 stations, will run from Zara to Bignami and is planned to open in 2012. The second stage is planned to open in 2013, and will run from Zara to Porta Garibaldi station. The third and fourth are both planned to open in 2015, and will run from Garibaldi to San Siro stadium

San Siro

The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, originally and commonly referred to as the San Siro because of its location, officially given its current name on 3 March 1980, is a football stadium located in the San Siro district in Milan, Italy. It is the home of both A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano...

 and from Bignami to Monza

Monza

Monza is a city and comune on the river Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza. It is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.On June...

. Two more stages are proposed, and they will run from San Siro to Settimo

Settimo Milanese

Settimo Milanese is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 9 km west of Milan. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 17,853 and an area of 10.8 km²....

 and from Settimo to Magenta.

	Phase 1 (2012)
	Phase 2 (2013)
	Phase 3 (2015)

	Station Name	Transfer	Grade
	Bignami		Underground
	Ponale		Underground
	Bicocca		Underground
	Ca' Granda		Underground
	Istria		Underground
	Marche		Underground
	Zara		Underground
	Isola		Underground
	Porta Garibaldi		Underground
	Monumentale		Underground
	Cenisio		Underground
	Gerusalemme		Underground
	Domodossola		Underground
	Tre Torri		Underground
	Portello		Underground
	Lotto		Underground
	Segesta		Underground
	San Siro Ippodromo		Underground
	San Siro Stadio		Underground

Rolling stock

The system will feature four-car articulated

Articulated car

Articulated cars are rail vehicles which are consist of a number of smaller, lighter cars which are semi-permanently attached to each other and which share common trucks. They are much longer than single passenger cars, and on the TGV Réseau, for example, 8 cars are joined this way...

 driverless trains from AnsaldoBreda. Trains, designed by Giugiaro

Italdesign Giugiaro

Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A is an automobile design and engineering company based in Moncalieri, Italy founded in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani as Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A...

, will be 39 metres (128 ft) long, 2.65 metre wide.

The systems are controlled by a fully automated computer system, located at the control and maintenance center.

External Links

• Metro5 official website
• Azienda Trasporti Milanesi