This year, Barry will be equally, if not more, impressed by saving an additional 45 minutes on the same route. According to the Independent, on Sunday, the latest Italian high-speed train service went into passenger operations. The new trains can now reach speeds of 225 mph delivering passengers to and from Milan and Rome in two hours and 45 minutes.
The new developments are due infrastructure improvements along 600 miles of track spanning the length of Italy over the last 25 years. The high-speed trains will provide major competition to airlines as Trenitalia predicts the new travel time will be almost an hour faster than the same domestic flight when travel to and from the airport and check-in are included.
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