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Italians Get All Efficient With Train Travel

Where: Milan, Italy
December 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Want your pasta faster? You're in luck because the Italians are all in favor of high-speed train links at the moment and on the weekend they launched a new fast train between Milan and Bologna. Instead of spending more than a couple of hours ambling from fashion shopping in Milan to a stereotypical Bolognese dinner, the new Trenitalia train speeds you there in 65 minutes, averaging 200 miles an hour.

The route is getting extended in 2009 to carry on to Rome, and Trenitalia is hoping to grab back a share of the budget airline market. The theory is sound and we're figuring the extra leg room these trains give you could definitely sway our choice--just as long as they run on time and don't charge us too much. We're not fussy, are we?

Related Stories:
· Italy Launches Milan-Bologna High-Speed Train Link [Reuters]
· Italy Travel Guide [Jaunted]
· Train Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

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