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14.6: Napoli infrastructure impressions : Metro 2: Europa o terzo mondo? Qui non c'è niente da scassare
Metro 2: Europa o terzo mondo? Qui non c'è niente da scassare

Inside Metro Line 2. Line 2 one is more of a regional S-Bahn type railway than a true metro. There are some few long distance trains running through the dark cross city tunnel that when it opened in 1925 represented a modern masterpiece of Italian engineering.

Unfortunately, with time giong on, with every unhappily designed upgrade, the once great architecture got partly removed and fragmented into a dirt and unfriendly space. Things do not seem to get better right now, but some heavy infrastructure works are carried out in order to reorganize all of the tunnel feeding lines, in a hope to improve service quality. Which is horrble nowadays as well. Trains looking like Ghana imports move at walking speed, often halting for 10 minutes somewhere in their dark tunnels.

However, Napoli means endless huge works, endless changes, never seeing completion, restless transformation and no target in sight.

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