Public transport walkouts are frequent: the next four-hour strike is scheduled for tomorrow evening. “We have seen a pit of waste which they have created – they have robbed Rome,” Raggi tells the Observer, criticising two decades in which, she claims, leaders have utterly failed to tackle financial waste and corruption. Public transport Work on the city’s third metro line has taken a decade and remains unfinished, buses are overcrowded and can be unreliable, and there are frequent strikes. In the run-up to the vote, a thick and humid air weighs heavily over Rome, as overcrowded buses remind residents how worn out the city’s public transport system is. But on the streets of Rome people are far more concerned about the fate of their city than their prime minister.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2016 23:03 UTC