Twenty years of stalemate, then the turning point finally arrived. The Municipality of Rome formally handed over the areas to the Eteria Consortium – which will operate under the mandate of Anas – to start the construction of the new Congress Bridge, an infrastructure awaited for decades in the south-west quadrant of the city.
The work measures 259 meters and was created to do what the Magliana Bridge can no longer do on its own, that is, connect the Grande Raccordo Anulare with the EUR without causing traffic disruption in half the neighborhood. Today that bridge is the only available passage, and you can see it – especially on via Cristoforo Colombo, via del Mare, via Ostiense and via Laurentina, all arteries that empty onto that bottleneck.
The numbers of the project
The overall investment amounts to 299 million euros, divided between three entities: 145 million from the budget of Roma Capitale, approximately 144 million from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, and over 8.6 million from the Jubilee funds. The project was included among the works of the second Jubilee Prime Ministerial Decree, a mechanism that released the financing after years of administrative impasse.
These are the statements of the mayor Roberto Gualtieri:
With the delivery of the works on the Congress Bridge we are taking a decisive step towards a work that has been awaited for many years which will concretely improve mobility between EUR and the coast, as well as the quality of life in a strategic quadrant of the city. We have unblocked an intervention that has been on hold for some time, including it among the Jubilee works and guaranteeing ourselves a significant share, 145 million euros out of around 300, to complete it. I want to thank the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Councilor Segnalini and the offices of Roma Capitale and the Extraordinary Commissioner for the commitment ensured in recent years and I wish Anas good work in the creation of a fundamental infrastructure for Rome’s mobility
The definitive design phase will be completed by the end of the year, the actual construction sites will start in the first months of 2027, with opening to traffic expected between 2031 and 2032.
Not just asphalt
The intervention is not limited to the bridge in the strict sense, given that the project also includes cycle and pedestrian paths, green areas and redevelopment interventions of the local road network. At the same time, the Tiber River Park will be created in the stretch between the Magliana Bridge and the new structure, a separate operation, with a separate contract, which aims to restore usability to the now effectively abandoned river banks.
These are the words of Marco Moladori, head of Anas’ Lazio territorial structure:
With the delivery of the works we enter the operational phase of a strategic infrastructure for the mobility of the Capital. The Congress Bridge will significantly improve the flow of traffic between the Gra, the Eur and the coast, easing the pressure on the Magliana Bridge and on the entire south-west quadrant of the city. Anas will deploy all its technical and organizational skills to guarantee certain times, quality of the work and full integration with the urban context, contributing to the creation of a modern, sustainable infrastructure serving citizens
