All roads lead to Rome. There should be no surprise that there are nearly 2.8 million inhabitants living in the capital city of Italy. In fact, the greater Roman metropolitan area is home to over 4 million people. Like any other city, there is the need to travel from one place to another. Due to its historicity rich windy and narrow cobbled roads, Rome is not the friendliest city to navigate. Factor in

History

– Growth of the city
– Need to connect neighborhoods
– Idea of public transportation

*Map of lablled neighborhoods

Present Day

‍- Need to commuters to travel about Rome
– Solution for traffic conjestion
– Statistics of use (percentage of total commuters)
– Affordability and access
– Main connection of Termini

*Put overall map of lines
*Video of the chaos of Termini

Linea A

– History/Construction of line
– Service areas
> busiest times
> popularity of areas
> frequency of trains
– Statistics of use

*More detailed route of Line A stops
*Pic of inside car

Linea B

– History/Construction of line

• constructed first

– Service areas

• busiest times
• popularity of areas
• frequency of trains

– Statistics of use

*Google pics of construction of line B
*Map of service areas

Linea C

– Proposed line route
– Problems of archaeological preservation

• what to save?
• what do to with artifacts?
• explanation of problems with building stations

– Having to re plan after running into ruins
– Tentative time table to completion
– Money issues

*Map of proposed line
*Pic of historic center (Largo Argentina)
*Pic of mural by Colosseum

Future

– Hope of a Line D in the future
– The ongoing conflict between engineers and archaeologists

• Stress the question of how much is too much artifacts?

*map of proposed line D