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Grappling With Climate Change and Overtourism, Italy Is Betting Big on Train Travel (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1086439

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd take this bet over building a highway any day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

absolutely, before moving for good, we traveled by train from Copenhagen down to Barcelona...it was an amazing trip.

Now we travel on high speed rails while enjoying the bar car (while someone else drives)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Italian highways are hell during holiday season

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in North America, and our highways are hell from about 7am to 7pm every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait ... There's a time they're not hell?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

and also during non-holiday season