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How Italy’s high-speed trains helped kill Alitalia: the number of passengers taking the train on the country’s main business route, between Rome and Milan, has almost quadrupled in a decade, from 1 million in 2008 to 3.6 million by 2018.
CNN Travel published an interesting article on the subject.