Catherine, in Venice at the moment, wrote me that she had seen an article in a local paper in the last week about a special vaporetto service that only picked up Venetians. She didn't get it all (the Italian, I presume), and asked me to post about it.
I checked Il Gazzettino for the month and searched the words vaporetto and vaporetti, and found nothing about the issue. Maybe she saw it in La Nuova Venezia. I know that Venetians hate the overcrowding on the Canal Grande, so it might be tempting -- in fact, I mentioned this to my wife yesterday, believe it or not.
But running two vap services would be extremely expensive/inefficient. There are so few Venetians. To add a second line for them would be crazy, not to mention the worsening of the crowding of the waterways and the extra moto ondoso, already at a crisis stage.
Has anyone heard/read anything about this?
it will be a special line for workers, pupils, students, old people specially the whom are living in terraferma, which can only be taken by special subscription card owners during crowdy periods (carnival, summer, biennale)to avoid missing trains and other problems of this kind during week working time.
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Got it. Is it only the Canal Grande?
N.
Posted by: lorenzo | November 30, 2005 at 03:07 PM
It was my understanding that it will run from the Treporti to Tre Archi via Fondamente Nove inbound in the morning, outbound in the evening, for (as it has been said) workers and students. Work days only (feriale).
Posted by: Randolph Becker | December 03, 2005 at 07:16 AM
It was my understanding that it will run from the Treporti to Tre Archi via Fondamente Nove inbound in the morning, outbound in the evening, for (as it has been said) workers and students. Work days only (feriale).
Posted by: Randolph Becker | December 03, 2005 at 07:17 AM
That's interesting, I hadn't heard. I'll check at the ACTV in the next few days and see what they say. Heaven knows, they could use a break...although there're just as many pendolari on the weekends, and that's when the boats are the fullest (that, and when it rains...)
Posted by: nan mc. | December 04, 2005 at 09:05 AM
I went to the ACTV booth at Ca' d'Oro today and asked the attentdent there if he knew anything about the Venetian Line. He paused a moment, shook his head and said, "Look," as he pointed the white hair, "they've been talking about that line every since these were black!"
Doesn't sound promising does it?
- nan
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Funny! It's interesting how everyone has a different answer to the question ... including some I got via email. It means something, but I'm not sure what.
Posted by: nan mc. | December 09, 2005 at 07:12 AM
Hi, it's Catherine. After sending the original question, I found someone in Venice who could translate the article as it appeared in the paper. It seems that the first two rows of seats in each waterbus are to be reserved for the elderly, infirm and pregnant women. Within days I started to notice signs to that effect onboard.
Posted by: Catherine | January 19, 2006 at 06:24 PM