Red Route

The Milan Metro has five lines named, understandably, the M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5. I decided to tackle them in order, because of course I did, so early on a Sunday morning I boarded an M1 train to its southwestern terminus: Bisceglie. That's the terminus for the time being. Milan has the habit of extending its metro in dribs and drabs, a couple of stations here, three more there, and as we'll see these extensions don't always go to plan. Earlier this year a three kilometre extension to Olmi was approved from Bisceglie, with new stations there and at Parri and Baggio. I walked up the steps to the exit behind three excitable teenage boys lugging large, oddly shaped bags. One of them had his on a trolley, which made me think they might be golfers, but up top all became clear. Bisceglie has a bus terminus built above it and there was a coach waiting for the boys and their mates. It seemed they were members of a youth orchestra of some sort, and the bus station was swarming with kids…