Italy’s unruly drivers
SOCCER and politics, usually Italy's hottest topics, have given way during the steamy summer season to traffic and transport. The past two months have been frantic. Airline pilots and railway workers have been on strike. Huge columns of lorries have been jamming motorways, their drivers sticking to 40km an hour (25 mph) in protest against a ban on trucks—on some routes—using the faster lanes. But the biggest talking-point has been supplied by ordinary car drivers.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Italy’s unruly drivers”
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