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Unlike much of the rest of southern Europe, Italy still has a fairly strong engineering sector as well, with some profitable export businesses. Not Germany-leve
by _delirium 13y ago
Unlike much of the rest of southern Europe, Italy still has a fairly strong engineering sector as well, with some profitable export businesses. Not Germany-level export business, but still pretty good. The metro system here in Copenhagen runs Italian-made trains, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnsaldoBreda_Driverless_Metro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnsaldoBreda_Driverless_Metro
- Luc 13y agoIn the Low Lands they have less positive experiences with AnsaldoBreda - the high speed trains turned out to be unfixable (according to Dutch & Belgian Rail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra "They entered service in December 2012 - five years later than originally planned.[19] They were taken out of service the following month due to numerous technical issues. Four months later only two of the 9 already delivered trains were still capable of performing test runs.[9]"
- _delirium 13y agoSame here actually: the intercity trains have been a fiasco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4#Controversy). But the metro system works well.
- tbarbugli 13y agono idea how Belgium rail company can even complain about that train considered that some of their machines are coming from same pre historical era.
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- whyenot 13y agoSan Francisco's light rail system also uses trains made by Breda.
- roel_v 13y agoLet's not call AnsaldoBreda an example of good engineering...
- davidw 13y agoItaly has a lot of niche engineering businesses that are pretty good, and a lot of talented people who work for a lot less than they'd get elsewhere. If the politicians made it an easier place to do business, I think a lot of foreign companies would invest.