Italy is last on the list of stable train operations

– Italy ranks last in the list made up of the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain in terms of fixed traffic on railways, i.e. metro, tram and suburban trains.

This information is contained in the report “Special Urban Displacements” by the NGO Legambiente.

The main drawback is the lack of infrastructure, so Italian cities are increasingly threatened by traffic and pollution.

Rome, for example, is one of the worst European cities in terms of railway and metro infrastructure.

According to Legambiente, in Italy, the total length of metro lines is less than 256 kilometers, far from the values ​​of the United Kingdom (680.4 km), Germany (656.5 km) and Spain (615.6 km).

The total number of metro lines in Italy is less or comparable to that of individual European cities such as Madrid (291.3 km) or Paris (225.2 km).

In terms of trams, Italy has 397.4 kilometers, far less than France's 875, and Germany's 2,042.9, mainly.

Italy has a total network of 740.6 km, while Germany has 2,041.3 km, the United Kingdom has 1,817.3 and Spain has 1,442.7.

Among cities, Rome is the worst in Europe for the availability of metro lines: 1.43 kilometers per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to other capitals such as London (4.93), Madrid (4.48) and Berlin (4.28).

In terms of railway investments, the report highlights that Italy has done very little and prefers to invest in roads.

In 2023, not one kilometer of new trams will be opened, while the only additional feature in the metropolitan system concerns the opening of a new section of the M4 in Milan.

In recent times, from 2016 to 2023, only 11 kilometers of trams and 14.2 kilometers of metro were built, an annual average of 1,375 kilometers and 1,775 kilometers respectively, far below what is needed to reach the European infrastructure average.

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