> Olivetti had commuter buses in Ivrea and Milan well before Google buses were invented Italy has both megalopoleis and very sparse small centres. Ivrea is in

> Olivetti had commuter buses in Ivrea and Milan well before Google buses were invented Italy has both megalopoleis and very sparse small centres. Ivrea is in the northern part of its region (north of Turin); if you consider that the southern half is said to not really have a main city but seven towns of equal beauty and worth (the even lesser ones not really minor), you get the idea of the sub-region as a very sparse megalopolis embedding its countryside. When enterprises chose to move at least part of their activity from their town of origin to the central area (of Turin) for logistic convenience, it became sensible to organize systems facilitating the movement of your workers, that easily gravitated around the original town. Edit: as you wrote elsewhere, «[there is a] city to have a job in but then you'd go home [when possible] if you could».