Metropolitan City of Milan


The Metropolitan City of Milan is a metropolitan city in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is the second most populous metropolitan city in the nation after the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Its capital is the city of Milan. It replaced the province of Milan and includes the city of Milan and 132 other comuni. It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since 1 January 2015.The Metropolitan City of Milan is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor and by the Metropolitan Council. Since June 2016 Giuseppe Sala, as mayor of the capital city, has been the mayor of the Metropolitan City.
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Government

Metropolitan Council

The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better coordinating the municipalities in providing basic services and environment protection. In this policy framework, the Mayor of Milan is designated to exercise the functions of Metropolitan mayor, presiding over a Metropolitan Council. The Council consists of mayors and city councillors of each comune in the Metropolitan City elected from amongst themselves using partially open list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Metropolitan councillors are elected at-large for five-year terms; votes for metropolitan councillors are weighted by grouping comunes of a certain population range into nine groups so that votes of the mayors and city councillors of the more populous groups are worth than those of less populous groups.
The first Metropolitan Council of the City was elected on 28 September 2014. The current Metropolitan Council of the City was elected on 19 December 2021:
The Metropolitan Council is seated at Palazzo Isimbardi, located in Milan.

Municipalities

The most-populous municipalities within the Metropolitan City are:
RankCityPopulationArea
Density
Altitude
1stMilan1,395,274181.76122
2ndSesto San Giovanni81,75011.74140
3rdCinisello Balsamo74,53612.7154
4thLegnano60,25917.72199
5thRho51,03322.32158
6thPaderno Dugnano47,11814.1163
7thCologno Monzese46,7078.46134
8thRozzano41,58113.01103
9thSan Giuliano Milanese37,23530.7198
10thSegrate36,91117.5115
11thBollate36,20413.1156
12thPioltello36,06113.1122
13thCernusco sul Naviglio34,84813.2134
14thCorsico34,3735.4115
15thAbbiategrasso32,42547.8120

The full list is:

Municipal government

Here is a list of the municipal government in cities and towns with more than 15,000 inhabitants:
MunicipalityMayor PartyExecutiveTerm
MilanGiuseppe SalaIndPDEVAIV2021–2026
Sesto San GiovanniRoberto Di StefanoLNFILNFdI2022–2027
Cinisello BalsamoGiacomo Giovanni GhilardiLNFILNFdI2023–2028
LegnanoLorenzo RadicePDPDInd2020–2025
RhoAndrea OrlandiPDPDInd2021–2026
Paderno DugnanoAnna VariscoPDPDSI2024–2029
Cologno MonzeseStefano ZanelliPDPDM5SAVS2023–2028
RozzanoGiovanni Ferretti De LucaLNFILNFdI2024–2029
San Giuliano MilaneseGiacomo Giovanni GhilardiFIFILNFdI2021–2026
SegratePaolo MicheliPDPDInd2020–2025
BollateFranco VassalloPDPDSI2020–2025
PioltelloIvonne CosciottiPDPDInd2021–2026
Cernusco sul NaviglioErmanno ZacchettiPDPDInd2022–2027
CorsicoStefano Martino VenturaPDPDInd2020–2025
AbbiategrassoFrancesco Cesare NaiIndFILNFdI2022–2027

Transport

Milan is one of the key transport nodes of Italy and southern Europe. Its central railway station is Italy's second, after Rome Termini railway station, and Europe's eighth busiest. The [Milan Milan Malpensa Airport|Malpensa Airport|Malpensa], Linate and Orio al Serio airports serve the Greater Milan, the largest metropolitan area in Italy.
Azienda Trasporti Milanesi is the Milanese municipal transport company; it operates 5 metro lines, 18 tram lines, 131 bus lines, 4 trolleybus lines and 1 people mover line, carrying about 776 million passengers in 2018. Overall the network covers nearly reaching 46 municipalities. Besides public transport, ATM manages the interchange parking lots and other transport services including bike sharing and carsharing systems.

Cycling

The bicycle is becoming an increasingly important mode of transportation in Milan. Since 2008, the implementation of a city-wide network of bike paths has been initiated, to fight congestion and air pollution. During the COVID pandemic in 2019, 35 km of bike lanes were realized on short notice, to relieve pressure on the subway occupation.
The bike sharing system BikeMi has been deployed in almost all the city and enjoys increasing popularity. Stationless commercial bike and scooter sharing systems are widely available.

Rail

Underground

The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving the city and surrounding municipalities. The network consists of 5 lines, with a total network length of, and a total of 121 stations, mostly underground. It has a daily ridership of 1.15 million, the largest in Italy as well as one of the largest in Europe.
The architectural project of the Milan Metro, created by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, and the signs, designed by Bob Noorda, received the Compasso d'Oro award in 1964. Within the European Union it is the seventh-largest network in terms of kilometres.

Suburban

, the Milan suburban railway service, operated by Trenord, comprises 11 S lines connecting the metropolitan area with the city centre, with possible transfers to all the metro lines. Most S lines run through the Milan Passerby Railway, commonly referred to as "il Passante" and served by double-decker trains every 4/8 minutes in the central underground section. The system comprises 12 lines serving 124 stations, for a total length of 403 km.
There are 415 trains per day with a daily ridership of about 230,000. The service timetable is based on a clock-face scheduling.
Although operated by different companies, the Milan Metro and the suburban rail service have integrated tickets.

National and international trains

Milan Central station, with 110 million passengers per year, is the largest and eighth-busiest railway station in Europe and the second busiest in Italy after Roma Termini. Milano Centrale railway station is the largest railway station in Europe by volume. Milano Cadorna and Milano Porta Garibaldi stations are, respectively, the seventh- and the eleventh-busiest stations in Italy. Since the end of 2009, two high-speed train lines link Milan to Rome, Naples and Turin, considerably shortening travel times with other major cities in Italy. Further high-speed lines are under construction towards Genoa and Verona. Milan is served by direct international trains to Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Lugano, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Zurich and Frankfurt, and by overnight sleeper services to Munich and Vienna. Overnight services to Paris were suspended in 2020 following the COVID lockdown and subsequently discontinued.
Milan is also the core of Lombardy's regional train network. Regional trains were operated on two different systems by LeNord and Trenitalia. Since 2011 Trenord, has operated both Trenitalia and LeNord regional trains in Lombardy, carrying over 750,000 passengers on more than 50 routes every day.

Buses and trams

The city tram network consists of approximately of track and 18 lines, and is Europe's most advanced light rail system. Bus lines cover over. Milan also has taxi services operated by private companies and licensed by the City Council of Milan. The city is also a key node for the national road network, being served by all the major highways of Northern Italy. Numerous long-distance bus lines link Milan with many other cities and towns in Lombardy and throughout Italy.

Airports

In the surroundings of Milan there are three airports dedicated to normal civilian traffic.
Overall, the Milan airport system handles traffic of over 51.4 million passengers and around 700,000 tons of goods every year and is the first in Italy in terms of passenger volume and cargo volume. The Milan Malpensa airport, with over 700 thousand tons, confirms the national leadership, processing 70% of the country's air cargo.
Lastly, Bresso Airfield is a general aviation airport, operated by Aero Club Milano. Since 1960 the airport mostly serves as a general aviation airfield for flying club activity, touristic flights and air taxi. It also hosts a base of the state helicopter emergency service Elisoccorso.