http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/07/10/the-worlds-most-expensive-public-transportation/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/07/10/the-worlds-most-expensive-public-transportation/comment-page-1/#comment-273475 Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Lo sciopero Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:05:22 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/?p=2076#comment-273475 [...] No, I didn’t. What was going on? It turned out that from 9pm on Sunday until 9pm on Monday, all public transport in Italy was out on strike. Some trains might run, she said, but she couldn’t get through to the information line that supposedly listed the uncanceled trains. Incidentally, the vaporetti, Venice’s water buses, were also going to be out on strike (so much for our expensive 24-hour vaporetto tickets). [...] [...] No, I didn’t. What was going on? It turned out that from 9pm on Sunday until 9pm on Monday, all public transport in Italy was out on strike. Some trains might run, she said, but she couldn’t get through to the information line that supposedly listed the uncanceled trains. Incidentally, the vaporetti, Venice’s water buses, were also going to be out on strike (so much for our expensive 24-hour vaporetto tickets). [...]

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