not true
x lo zio
i'm living in amsterdam and i travel the world every week
italy has the best highway, railway and public transport connection around.
u can't be serious nt89.... i mean it's crazy enough to say we're on par with the likes of france, spain and germany when it comes to public transport network.....but "the best around"???!! oh come on, how can u say that! check out the eurostat site and see the numbers for yourself.
italy is the country who spends less in infrastructure manteinance of the entire euro zone.
5 out of the 10 most dangerous and badly conceived and built highways in europe are in italy..... and the worst highway in europe (according to a accidents\traffic flow analisys) is the salerno-reggio calabria..... wich is, for the records, the 2nd most important highway in italy. it took 20 years to us to finish the palermo-messina highway.... 20 years to build 300 km of highway... how does that sound to u?
and that's about the highways, coz when we start talking about trains, the situation gets even more embarassing. france, germany, spain, they all have an 80% coverage of high-speed rail.... how about italy? well we don't even reach the 50%. as a matter of fact, u won't find a single high-speed train below roma (wich means more than half of the country doesn't have coverage). and u know why?. it's because the rails pose such serious bad-mantainance related issues that it wouldn't be safe to have high-speed trains.
the average delay of an italian train is 12 minutes (in spain and france it's within 5 minutes).
yeah, upnorth the global situation is definitely better... and we can say that, from roma to milano, italy
is almost on par (certainly not better, as u said) with france, speaking of infrastructures, facilities and public transport and services. but there's still half of the country below roma. and that is definitely not on par with europe's other rich countries.... it's not even close to be on par.
just an example: there are about 900 kilometers between milano and palermo. pretty much the same distance there is between paris and nice (there's less than a 40 kilometers difference).
if u take a tgv (train grand vitesse aka high speed rail) from paris, u're in nice in
6 hours. do u know how much it takes to reach milano from palermo with a frecciarossa (wich is the fastest train avaliable)?
16 hours .
there is a 10 hours gap on the same distance between a french train and an italian one. u don't have to believe me, just visit trenitalia official site and the sncf official site and see for yourself.
mate, i'm sure u know netherlands' infrastructures.... but u clearely don't know france's, or spains' or germany's. and u certainly don't know italy's infrastructures situation. otherwise u wouldn't be saying italy has "the best highways and public transport system around".
i can't talk about netherlands, coz i've been just in amsterdam.... just once... just for a few weeks.... and it was 12 years ago.
but i can definitely talk about most of the rest of europe, as i lived for 3 years in france... i lived for 2 years in spain.... as a matter of fact i spent 1\3 of my life outside italy (and since i'm 30, that adds up to 10 travelling around the world).... and 6 of those 10 years i spent in europe... so i definitely know what i'm talking about.
italy is an amazing country. wherever u go u're always surrounded by beauty in any possible form; and the people are the most easy going, kind, caring and warm i've ever met (and as i said, i spent 10 years wandering around the globe, so i've got in touch with a lot of different cultures)....
.. but infrastructures, public facilities and public services... those aren't really our "forte".
because of platini... france had 1 point more then turkey.
