In message , Basil Jet
writes

The price of a 2011 season ticket from Woking in Surrey to London,
including Tube travel in the capital, is £3,268. Yet a similar 22-mile
journey from Velletri to Rome costs Italian season ticket holders £336.17

Not entirely surprising given that the Italians subsidised their
railways at more than four times the rate of the British for many
decades.

You can see the result of such extravagance in the current state of the
Italian economy, though, as well as in their very attractive train fares


--
Paul Terry