MILANO | Public Transport

[GENIUS LOCI]

Yup: I think one of the main deficiencies of the system is the communication.

I think that Atm communication sucks, but Trenitalia and le Nord communication is even worse.

I have to say, anyway, that recently Atm tried to improve the communication: I liked the efforts to make metro signage a bit more standardized and clear (reminds me Paris metro one, which I consider one of the best).
Not perfect, but way better than previously and I think this way is the right direction.









On the other hand contemporarily they made gigantic mistakes as for istance this incomprehensible map of bus/tram network

[LtBk]

Do you think more people are going to use the S-Trains in the near future?

[GENIUS LOCI]

Definitely yes.
each year number of passengers grows.

[Attus]

Originally Posted by GENIUS LOCI

Definitely yes.
each year number of passengers grows.

Do you have some statistics about it? I mean daily and/or yearly ridership of Linee S.

[WalkTheWorld]

And more pictures from within the stations pls.

[Attus]

Originally Posted by WalkTheWorld

And more pictures from within the stations pls.

Some pictures here

[GENIUS LOCI]

In this map of Passante I found in the link you provided there is not Lancetti station



A correct scheme with current S lines running in the Passante

[IMG]http://i55.************/288vc4x.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.msrmilano.com/images/PassanteFerroviario.pdf

source msrmilano

Lancetti station

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by Attus

Do you have some statistics about it? I mean daily and/or yearly ridership of Linee S.

I was looking for more specifical data, but I couldn't find 'em.

I found many sources stating in last 2 years regional railways passengers number rised of 15%
I assume mostly because of Milan S lines


Main source of these data I think is Trenord (the new regional railways company born by the merging of Trenitalia and LeNord)

http://www.trenord.it/media/18134/br...renord_web.pdf

That's the railway network of Trenord

[IMG]http://i56.************/33uya2d.jpg[/IMG]

[thun]

I think the communication in stations isn't that bad at all. It's not as if Milan would have any seriously complex hub stations. Nevertheless, I found it particularly hard to find my way at Duomo station.
What I really missed regurarly were maps indicating the location of bus bays and tram stops at larger statinos (e. g. Cadorna, Repubblica, Porta Venezia, etc.).

[Attus]

Originally Posted by GENIUS LOCI

I was looking for more specifical data, but I couldn't find 'em.

I found many sources stating in last 2 years regional railways passengers number rised of 15%
I assume mostly because of Milan S lines

Thank you, any way.

[LtBk]

I forget to say this earlier, but a thread for Milan's mass transit was long overdue IMO.

[GENIUS LOCI]

There is a thread regarding M5 construction, maybe something (forgotten) on the tram network and many threads on S lines (forgotten as well)

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by WalkTheWorld

And more pictures from within the stations pls.

Metro stations or railways stations?

Oh well: then I'll begin with this metro/rail interchange

Affori Nord

The metro station and the rail station enter service at the end of March.

Metro is M3 extension from Maciachini to Comasina (opened in March) with the opening of 4 new stations: Dergano, Affori Centro, Affori FN (interchange with rail, S2-S4) and Comasina (interchange with suburban tramline n° 179).

The existing railways station (owned by leNord) of Affori was dismissed and a new station few hundreds meters North was built to interchange directly with the metro

Here the plan to show you how the interchange works (they built even a car tunnel to underpass the rail line)






http://www.urbanfile.it/index.asp?ID=3&SID=87

A report of the opening day (with a meeting of Milanese forumers) by Tonybild

Originally Posted by TONYBILD

M3 STATIONS














DERGANO M3




FN AFFORI RAIL STATION

















M3 EXIT TO FN AFFORI RAIL STATION



The rail station from a new pedestrian overpass


The old FNM Affori station now dismissed

[Attus]

Maciachini

I speak Italian in a basic level and I realized, the pronounciation for this station name is something like 'Machakkini'. There was a case I analized an information sign and heard some young girls nerby saying 'Massiachini'.
I was annoyed: Is my Italian so poor? And then I listened to the girls and heard they're saying 'Vamos' and 'linea tres' and everything was clear for me :-D

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by Attus

I speak Italian in a basic level and I realized, the pronounciation for this station name is something like 'Machakkini'.

Unlike English in Italian 'ch' and 'gh' followed by the vowels 'i' and 'e' sound hard like 'k' and 'g' of garden for istance.
While without 'h' the pronunciation is soft like ch in church and like 'j'

There was a case I analized an information sign and heard some young girls nerby saying 'Massiachini'.
I was annoyed: Is my Italian so poor? And then I listened to the girls and heard they're saying 'Vamos' and 'linea tres' and everything was clear for me :-D

There are plenty of Latin Americans in Milan; anyway she could be even a Spanish tourist

[GENIUS LOCI]

Anyway now the terminus is Comasina to facilitate the pronunciation for non-Italian speakers

[GENIUS LOCI]

[GENIUS LOCI]

[GENIUS LOCI]

[GENIUS LOCI]

I like this video: nothing special but showing a metro passenger entering a station and a train