Grappling With Climate Change and Overtourism, Italy Is Betting Big on Train Travel
Grappling With Climate Change and Overtourism, Italy Is Betting Big on Train Travel
New rail routes will help throngs of tourists get around the country in a sustainable way
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1086439
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I'd take this bet over building a highway any day.
absolutely, before moving for good, we traveled by train from Copenhagen down to Barcelona...it was an amazing trip.
Now we travel on high speed rails while enjoying the bar car (while someone else drives)
Naahhh, current italian government would like to bet on fossil fuels and biofuels, but their plan was so plain stupid that eu laughed on their face, partially blocking it
Now they are giving money to whoever buys a petrol and gasoline car, while not planning any change in the grid or financing more points of recharge.
At the same time trains in Italy are among the most expensive in Europe, while median salaries are the lowest in western Europe. And the government has explicitly written in its official planning that they commit to take any possible measure to stop any increase of salaries to keep inflation under control without touching companies' extra profits
Italy is considered Western Europe? Huh.
Yes, western and east Europe are very well defined actually. There was a popular wall back in the days in Berlin to clearly symbolize the division.
Italy is west Europe, and it has never been "eastern" (while history of places like Greece is less well defined). It had the capital of western Europe at the time of the late roman empire, when the first big separation between west and east Europe happened
I had a discussion some time ago in Reddit with someone who argued that Spain is not western Europe, but Germany is. They even provided links and it seems that geopolitically it is considered like that, but having lived in Spain and Germany and in between I think barely anyone raised there would say so
Honestly, I'm surprised Meloni's government gives a shit about trains. Thought she wanted to keep all the foreigners out.
gotta get that tourism money