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February 10, 2013: Zara – Bignami section
March 1, 2014: Zara – Garibaldi section
April 29, 2015: Garibaldi – San Siro Stadium section
June 6, 2015: Portello station
June 20, 2015: Cenisio station
September 26, 2015: Gerusalemme station
October 11, 2015: Monumentale station
November 14, 2015: Tre Torri station
The M5 line is an automatic light-dimensioned metro line with a standard of 50 m platforms and trains, the latter with a maximum capacity of 536 people.
It is entirely underground, including the depot at the Bignami terminus. It does not yet have a real depot: for large maintenance functions it uses the Famagosta M2, which the trains reach via a connection towed by a service locomotive. It has a standard gauge of 1.435 mm and ground power supply with third rail.
As an automatic subway, it has no driver’s cabs or drivers and the stations have platform doors.
The current Bignami – San Siro Stadio route is 12.9 km long, excluding service connections, and has 19 stations for an average inter-station distance of 678 m.
The line has no branches and is presented as a northeast – west subcentral diameter that penetrates the city from the north along the Zara – Testi axis, passes through the Garibaldi business center outside the historic center and then continues westward passing through the Monumental Cemetery, via Domodossola, CityLife and piazzale Lotto.
The M5 line makes correspondence with all other lines of the network except the M4 line and specifically with the M3 line at Zara, with the M2 line, the Porta Garibaldi and Porta Garibaldi passante stations at Garibaldi, the FNM at Domodossola at the homonymous station, the M1 line at Lotto. Not yet reaching the extreme periphery, it does not yet have large interchange car parks, but there are existing surface car parks at the Bignami and San Siro termini.
The M5 line is operated with a maximum frequency of 180″ (3′), which ensures a maximum system capacity of 10,720 pphpd. The M5 line currently carries about 120.000 passengers per day and over 43.5 million per year. From the M4 stations, approximately 94.000 passengers currently pass on a typical working day, the most frequented is Domodossola, with over 7.600 passengers on a typical working day. The commercial speed of the line (i.e. the average including stopping times) is 28,5 km/h. In operation from 5.30-6.00 to 00.30-01.00 (19h of operation) it is the only line of the network not yet replaced in the remaining night hours by a bus replacement.
The M5 line has a fleet of 21 trains, all with 4 intercommunicating cars each with 2 doors per side and a body width of 2.65 m.
There are ongoing extension projects from both M5 termini. The Bignami – Monza Brianza extension, which from the current terminus develops for about 12.5 km (as much as the current line) with 11 stations and the Casignolo line depot, passing through the Bettola node (Cinisello-Monza M1-M5), the railway station and the center of Monza, Villa Reale and the San Gerardo Hospital, ending at the Monza Brianza institutional center, is the subject of the ongoing Definitive Project Extension M5 to Monza.
The PFTE extension of the M5 metro line towards Settimo Milanese has been drawn up for the westward extension, which has evaluated various extension alternatives through the Sant’Elena, Quarto Cagnino, Quinto Romano and Figino districts up to the West ring road at Settimo (the PUMS route provided for 4.5 km and 4 stations with a new depot). The design is currently continuing with a partial hypothesis of about 2.5 km with two stations at Quarto Cagnino and Quinto Romano.
