Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Yellow Box Disappears

It's incredible but true-the yellow box will soon vanish from Italy's train stations. You know, the one you need to use to stamp your ticket before you get on the train. And sometimes you forgot or you didn't even know you were supposed to use it because you are a foreign traveller and assume by buying a ticket, that is enough to travel without a hassle on an Italian train.
Well, it's being replaced by a more modern variety of stamping machine which is neither yellow nor boxy anymore. Here's introducing Trenitalia's new slick machine.


4 comments:

  1. I used one of those yesterday and it messed up the stamp. I like the yellow ones better.

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  2. That is too perfect as a comment - W Italia, which always manages to have defective technology ;)

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  3. In Rome we can use the trains even inside the town (like a metro)with the same local bus ticket and to stamp it with this machines is strange the thicket is too small the this machine!

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  4. For regional trips, we can use the same size ticket. I haven't tried to stamp that one yet but I can believe that there might be hazards.

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