Italy's slowest trains: all in the South

In Italy there are many commuters who benefit from it every day post-sales service railway: A little bit more than 5,51 million according to Legambiente commuter. A number only slightly higher than that recorded in the previous year. The shocking thing, however, is the inequality of speed which occurs between the regions: While the situation has improved in the North, in the South there are fewer trains running, they are older and, above all, slower.

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SLOWEST TRAINS IN ITALY

Just think that the train more slow of Italy, for example, is the Intercity, number 721, which connects central Messina with Syracuse and in eight months one hundred hours of work have been accumulated delays. In second place is the Rome-Palermo Intercity, which travels with an average delay of half an hour, slightly more than the delays accumulated on the Milan-Taranto Freccia Bianca and the Intercity Trieste-Taranto. Between Ragusa and Palermo there are only 3 connections per day, all with a change, and in total it takes 4 hours to reach your destination. Between Cosenza and Crotone, however, there are no direct links: you have to make at least one change and it takes 3 hours to travel 115 km. Another problem is that in the South the high-speed train stops at Salerno.

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An extreme situation unease, which also verifies a reduction in passengers 45%, as happens on the Rome-Lido di Ostia suburban line managed by Atac. Or on the Circumvesuviana, where there was a 30% drop in train supply. Not to mention the closure of more than 1.323 kilometers of railway lines, as happened in Molise, where there is no longer a railway connection to the sea. On the contrary, in the regions where investments are made in the care of the Iron the number of commuters is growing and the desire to travel by train is increasing. Lombardy, for example, despite the difficulties on some lines, 735.000 passengers travel on the trains regional and in Friuli Venezia Giulia we went from 13 to 21.500 travellers.

But why so much? difference between Regions of the same country? The causes are certainly to be found in the different ways in which these entities have managed the policies of the transport (train reductions and fare increases), with consequent cuts to rail services in the south and increase of cost of the tickets. Another sore point concerns, then, the funding road: in fact, only 13% was used compared to the 60% used for roads and highways.

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