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Researcher on urban planning and public transportation. https://marcochitti.substack.com/

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Orari dei Trasporti – Ferrovie della Calabria Srl

Ah, they also operate trains in the section between Cosenza and Rogliano, apparently.

If you want to trust their website...

web.ferroviedellacalabria.it/orari-dei-tr...

10.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As for the two lines in the wiki article, it's because the FS mainline from Lamezia used to run through Catanzaro Sala, then alongside the Ferrovie della Calabria, but was rerouted during the postwar years away from the city (don't ask me why they did something so stupid)

10.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish I could answer you, but even the official website is a mess, and it's unclear whether the service from Catanzaro CittΓ  to Soveria Mannelli is currently operated by trains. My understanding is that rail service now is limited to Catanzaro Lido - Catanzaro CittΓ , including the rack segment

10.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

As you prefer. My bad.

10.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry that you interpret this as a form of uncalled pessimism rather than the necessary dose of ridicule that makes life lighter. I just can't resist whenever I see that clumsy expression of obtuse regulations. It's really too good to be true.

10.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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How do you dare making fun of this form of art. This is what peak performance in traffic signs look like.

10.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The government generally provides the land for almost free (for various reasons, a lot of the land in the west bank is historically "public" with some form of leasehold tenure on it), but also funds most urban infrastructure IIRC.

10.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She very well understood the contradiction between living in a settlement and being a militant for ending the Israeli occupation, but she was the single mother of a disabled kid and Jerusalem is a very expensive city to live in. Many settlements are the affordable option.

10.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last time I was living for a month in Ramallah (2018), one of my flatmates was an American activist of an Israeli-Palestinian peace advocacy group. One of her co-militant, who came often at the house, was an Israeli living in Pisgat Ze'ev, a settlement, because it was affordable.

10.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

40 mm of freezing rain expected on Wednesday.

I guess that I need to prepare for an extended power outage because this country is unable to bury urban power lines...

09.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Why exactly do you need a coherent policy when you can just rotate your big hammer randomly over your head and hit whatever moves, than stop when you get tired and call it a victory to the cheering of half of the room?

Don't you know that Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz are woke?

09.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It pretty much has socialist aesthetic when it comes to government buildings.

And it's not like Western Europe has been governed by left-leaning parties for most of its modern history...

09.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They formally abandoned Stalinism in 1956 (invasion of Hungary) and honestly never really were in practice even before where they governed locally. By the 1970s, they even abandoned the Soviet-led third international type of authoritarian communism pushing for the so-called "Euro-Communism"

09.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But their coalition moved left (1960s and 70s) and right (1950s and 1980s) as a consequence of them needing to form coalitions to govern, with significant policy changes.

And the non-negligeable fact that the PCI was de facto banned from government under a not-so-veiled threat of US intervention.

09.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's largely because of the FPTP system, which collapses politics to the center and the management of the status quo.

09.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In Italy, there was a saying that "we are going to die Democristiani", that is ruled by the forever centrist party.
I feel like I just moved to a country were "I'm going to die Liberal" is the best case scenario.

09.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's the inherent contradiction to be a left-leaning person in Canada. You feel thankful to the Liberals because they aren't the Conservatives, but you also deeply resent them for making any seriously progressive government impossible by their very existence.

09.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately too many people do not understand that not every country has the fiscal capacity of Scandinavia (or the US) and that in many places the so-called informal sector is a sizeable chunk of the economy which doesn't yield taxes.

09.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The line between stupidy and opportunism can be pretty thin.

09.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also a "maybe the smartest people in the (media) room weren't that smart after all" moment.

09.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was a thing also in Italy back in the 1980s-90s.

09.03.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is indeed an apparently technically complex question but it is pretty clear who voted and supported this reform and why.

09.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/chit...

09.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's already luxurious, top tier catering.

08.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US and Canadian academics when they see the catering of an Italian or French conference.

08.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Is a symptom of a PTSD

08.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This might seems cute and effective, but remember that North American traffic engineers prohibit some movements from or into lateral streets only when they are under heavy stress.

08.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a constitutional reform of some aspects of judiciary governance, notably by separating judges and posecutors career paths and by reforming how the CSM, a sort of parliament for the self-government of the judiciary, is elected, giving potentially more oversight capacity to the govt.

08.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

🀞🀞🀞🀞

08.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Won't share what I voted, but in this era of governments trying to grab more power away from other constitutional checks and balances and looking at what's happening in the US with their hyperpoliticized judiciary, be assured I didn't vote to give the govt more oversight capacity over the judiciary.

08.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0