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> but don't let it distract from the important battle to modernize and disrupt an entrenched industry In Europe, we actually have working public transportation

• handedness 10y ago
  > In Europe, we actually have working public transportation. Not in Italy, you don't. In no developed nation have I ever found public transportation as unreliable as I have in Italy, and in that I'm including northern Italy.
  • rekshaw 10y ago
    Surface transport maybe, metro is very reliable (Milan)
    • handedness 10y ago
      Not, for example, when they decide to run all of the trains in one direction only, yet neglect to update the schedules displayed on screen in the stations, so anyone looking to head the other direction is stranded for an indeterminate of time. (If the surface transportation was any good, that wouldn't have been such a big problem.) Milan has as many problems as anywhere else in Italy, and it's not immune from their insane strikes, either.
• nkkollaw 10y ago
  > In Europe, we actually have working public transportation. Hard to generalize. In Italy public trasportation in most cities—even major ones—is absolutely horrible. In Florence, it takes me 45 minutes to get anywhere by bus instead of 15 by car, some areas are not served at all, and most buses don't run after working hours or 10PM at the most. Buses are often late, overcrowded, and many (most?) without air conditioning with 40C in the summer.