Different type of towns with great freeway and railroad systems (english and italian languages)

1. La città 1

2. Ginevra

4. Interstate 105, Los Angeles

7. The Route 91-New Smart Highway,
Toll Road in Orange County, California

9. Ingresso in Chicago

11. Mosca

15. In this November 16, 2010 file photo, passengers ride on top of an overcrowded train at a railway
station in Dhaka.

18. Boston

20. Tokyo

21. Chicago

22. • Chicago, skyline

23. Toronto, Highway 401

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30. Dacca

32. Levittown,
Pennsylvania.

38. Paris, Gare du Nord
By the number of travelers,
at around 190 million per
year, it is the busiest railway
station in Europe.

40. Grand Central Terminal, NYC
44 banchine, 67 binari

41. Grand Central Terminal data
• When it comes to Grand Central, the facts tell why it is truly central:
• 750,000 people pass through Grand Central daily and over 1,000,000 people
during the holidays
• Metro-North passengers are 55% male and 45% female, the median age is 41. 93%
of Grand Central Terminal commuters are college graduates.
• Mean household income for Grand Central Terminal commuters is $95,800; 50% of
household incomes are over $100,000, and 20% are over $200,000.
• The captive shopping population of more than 326,000 neighborhood office
workers earn a combined $11.3 billion a year.
• An average 7,500 people an hour pass the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt
Avenue, making it one of the busiest intersections in the city.
• 21.6 million out-of-town tourists, with a mean income of $62,000, visit Grand
Central each year.
• Grand Central is served by Metro-North commuter trains, 31 commuter and 15
city bus routes, 7 subway lines, buses to and from the area's three airports, and
two million taxis a year.
• Grand Central Terminal subway station is the busiest stop in the New York City
subway system.

42. Stazione di Roma Termini 150.000.000
Stazione di Milano Centrale 116.800.000
Stazione di Torino Porta Nuova 70.000.000
Stazione di Firenze Santa Maria Novella 59.000.000
Stazione di Bologna Centrale 58.000.000
Stazione di Napoli Centrale 50.000.000
Stazione di Milano Cadorna 40.100.000
Stazione di Venezia Mestre 31.000.000
Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia 30.000.000
Stazione di Verona Porta Nuova 25.000.000

43. La rete
ferroviaria
europea
nella metà
del XIX
secolo

49. La stazione di Porta Nuova a fine ‘800

56. Lo “stadium”, curiosa, grande arena sportiva della Torino del
primo 900, situato in C.so Vinzaglio, fu poi demolito negli anni
’30, in occasione della costruzione del nuovo stadio Comunale

57. Lo stadio “Mussolini” (oggi “Olimpico”) appena inaugurato