Andrew Thompson takes a look at the changing face of bus operations in the Italian port city of Genoa
As one of Italy’s largest ports on the Mediterranean, the maritime city of Genoa, Genova in Italian, has a sprawling footprint along the Ligurian coast and a population of about 563,000. Since Genoa was a host city for the Fifa World Cup in 1990, a short Metro has been developed as a backbone for public transport.
Extended in different stages over the course of two decades, the largely underground Metro has been 6.5km long with eight stations since 2012. Although new extensions at both the eastern and western ends of the line are scheduled to open in the coming years, the small scale and limited reach of the system mean it is still not sufficient to cover the large population’s extensive mobility needs. Although Genoa also boasts a clever system of historic rack railways, steep funiculars and vertical elevators to serve residential districts in the hills above and beyond the centre – and these attractive assets are also popular with tourists – buses remain crucial for providing connectivity to and from the hills.
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