Italy is a car infested country. I would love to know impressions of fellow users from other countries that visit Italy: do you see this?
We rank in the low part for public transport and rails (except high-speed trains). Which is not surprsing
Moreover, automotive industry is sinking in Italy, so there is not even the justification of helping “economy”, for pushing on cars so much.
Finally, there are many more cars than car licenses in Italy. Which, IMHO, is completely absurd
Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/113632796547131119
Latvia is in last place 🥳
As a visitor to milano, i had a really great time getting around on foot and metro. Also took rail to the alps and high speed train to torino. Italy is way less carbrained than north america
Also, a lot more scooters, motorcycles, and really tiny cars. So the roads feel safer compared to north america
If you tried to get out of Milan city proper your opinion of the transports wouldn’t be as good.
Regional transport is not as well integrated specially outside of major cities.
going to lecco, varenna, torino doesn’t count as getting out of milan city proper?
i know the system isn’t perfect, and plenty of locals complained about transit… but coming from a north american perspective italy has so much more transit options than we have here (both regionally and within the city)
Referring mostly for commuters. Regional trains are very busy and generally not well maintained.
Trenord the private operator doesn’t do a good job. Trains are frequently late, packed and dirty
If you go outside the Rush hour it might be okay but at Rush hour it’s a different story.
Of course if you compare to a City that has no or very limited transport options there’s no comparison.
Any reason why the Netherlands (a.k.a. Holland, a.k.a. Olanda in Italian) isn’t on the list? It would be interesting to know how they compare.
Because it’s called with the (I think) coresct name “Paesi Bassi” 😉
I was just reading an article yesterday in the Australia Financial Review (paywalled) with a few Aussie’s who emigrated to Italy, 2 retirees, one a younger family, and they all commented that the public transport was so much better and so cheap compared to Australia and they didn’t need to own a car.
https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/so-you-want-to-retire-to-tuscany-20241128-p5ku92
How bad is Australia :(
It’d be interesting to see it by weight of those cars. My impression is that Italy has a lot of really small cars, while we here in Sweden have a lot of the US-style Emotional Support Vehicles
Was just watching a live stream of Piazza Venezia (in Rome) and there was bumper to bumper traffic made up of mostly “regular sized cars”.
But it was such a joy to see Vespas, e-scooters, and bikes filter though that mess like it was nothing!
Traffic is only a car problem.
Public transport around Napoli and Caserta is ok, but the car traffic is heavy. Driving in Italy is terrible though, traffic laws are more of suggestions.
Lots of cars under “blocco amministrativo” for not paying taxes, can’t be driven, can’t be sold lol
