On average, life consists of bad or fake news. Every now and then there is a good one, immediately exalted by the media but which turns out to be just as bad as the first ones.
For example. In order to save more and pollute less, Treviso has recently introduced “call buses”: they only run if you book the ride by downloading a second app compared to the one you have to use to buy the ticket. Ideal for the elderly, foreigners and the disabled. For information: go to the website complicazioniutili.it
In Rome, however, on the occasion of the month celebrating LGBTQ pride, the rainbow metro is debuting. It is a carriage decorated with the colors of the rainbow flag, it is called the “train of inclusiveness” and it arrives exactly like all the other trains. Late. If it arrives.
Finally, in Milan, bus and metro tickets became reloadable. They give you one that you will use your whole life, so you don’t waste paper. But every time you top up a ride, they give you a payment receipt. Paper.
In Italy we travel proudly at the high speed of green and rainbow rhetoric.
But populism for populism’s sake we are often still on shuttle lines with regard to cleanliness, inconvenience, cost, delays and the presence of “pocket rolls”, so gender equality is safe.
Politicians know this well. The Italian doesn’t even care to sit on the right or left anymore. He got used to standing around waiting for anyone who promised to improve the service.