Football Fans Enjoy "Train"ing Before the Big Match
Today trains across Europe will be stretched to their limits with football fans intent on savouring the remarkable atmosphere of a Champions League Final in Rome. http://press.laterooms.com/news/19162221-footie-fans-to-take-trains-to-rome.html A city that’s about to receive an incredible boost in the speeds of the trains that service it from around Europe.TrenItalia and the recently formed NTV have plans to send journey times tumbling.
With increasing speeds, surely this is the best way for football fans to travel to the match to really savour the experience?
(Trenitalia is one of the largest rail operators in Europe, operating over 9,200 trains daily, carrying around 1.5million passenger for an annual total of almost 500 million people spending over €50 billion on the high speed network since 1995. By December 2009 they will have high speed trains running between Rome and Milan every 15 minutes with a total journey time of three hours (currently four and a half hours!)
NTV will be operating on this route too, starting in 2011 with 13 trains a day. Mr di Montezemolo is sure he and his fellow investors are on to a winner. “Italy is a country made for high-speed trains. There is nothing to be gained from investing in airlines.”)
