It took 20 years to build and cost £3bn, but the opening of Rome's new metro line was bedevilled by embarrassing delays and malfunctions.
The metro line, the capital’s third, was opened to great fanfare on Sunday but to the embarrassment of officials, the first train stopped four stations short of its destination.
Passengers had to disembark, stand on the platform, and wait for another train.
It finally limped onwards, arriving 11 minutes late.
Then the doors got stuck, temporarily trapping dignitaries, including Ignazio Marino, the mayor of Rome, inside the shiny new carriages....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11221379/Romes-new-metro-opens-to-chaos.html
Mamma mia, where's Il Duce when you need him?
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