Talk:Transport in Italy

Vatican City

The article (Jan 08, 2012) states "Vatican City is also linked with a railroad, but currently not operational". However, to the best of my knowledge, the track and station are "operational", they're just not open for public use and are used only as needed by the Vatican.

The station inside Vatican City is, of course, different that the station just to the south called "Roma San Pietro", which is indeed operational (I was there in March, 2011), but it's in Rome itself, not on Vatican soil.

Anyone know why this article states that the Vatican track and station are not "operational"?

William J. 'Bill' McCalpin (talk) 03:32, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

As far as I know, there is no regular service on the line, and it is occasionally used only for freight transport, pilgrim trains, and, very few times, by the Pope (Pope John Paul II used it 3 times, Benedict XVI only once).[1] --Ita140188 (talk) 09:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I thought. The problem here is the word "operational". Does it mean that the rail line and station can be used (which is true) or that the rail line and station are available for use by the public (which is not true)? I would argue that the former definition is more accurate, or, to avoid the problem, we should just say that instead of "operational", that the rail line and train station in the Vatican does not have regular scheduled service, but is occasionally used for freight transport, pilgrim trains, and, very few times, by the Pope.

Seem fair to you?

William J. 'Bill' McCalpin (talk) 04:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I see, you've already changed it! ;-)

William J. 'Bill' McCalpin (talk) 04:44, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Doubled double paragraph

Isn't there a double for the sentence and the paragraphs? "Italy was the first country in the world to build motorways, the so-called autostrade"

µWas it first twice? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.120.88.229 (talk) 19:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Missing safety

The word "safety" appears two times, but safety as a concept is missing...

to elaborate, we may use those pieces of data:

road network

Density of italian network is 23 kilometers of motorways per 1000 square kilometers of lands and 780 kilometers of roads per 1000 square kilometers of lands, in 2019.

Italy has more motorcycle per inhabitant than the rest of Europe.

Road safety

In 2017, Italy is perceived has having a poor traffic safety record compared to other western Europe countries.

In 2023, Italy has 52 deaths per million inhabitants (against 45 road in the EU27). This ranks Italy 19th out of 27 tied with Poland.

On a scale ranging from 1 poor to 7 excellent, roads from Italy are perceived as 4.4, in 2019.

Italy has nearly 17 600 M-AIS-3+ serious injuries in 2019.

Road death rate is higher in Sardegna (70 per million inhabitant or 7.0 per 100 000 inhabitant) than in Liguria (36 per million inhabitant or 3.6 per 100 000 inhabitant).

References

any comment? suggestion?

on the pertinence,? the wording? the sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.120.88.229 (talk) 18:39, 23 April 2025 (UTC)