Venice wants to hide from tourists. These points may disappear from Google maps
Tourists in Venice give up expensive cruises with gondolas in favor of a substitute lasting a few minutes. Residents have an idea how to limit access to their means of communication.
Gondola cruises in Venice are a must -have attraction for many tourists, but quite expensive. Usually you have to pay around 90 euros for half an hour. For some time, influencers and travel bloggers have been promoting the equivalent of this attraction for economical – crossing to the other side of the channel crossing the city in the traghetto gondola. Although such a cruise can be compared to a free ferry crossing through the Vistula in Warsaw, some are enough as a memorial from travel.
Tourists choose cheap gondolas in Venice
“It was a short but pleasant experience that saved us 40 minutes walk. Enough time to take a few photos. Well -published 2 euros,” she encouraged X Clara.
The inhabitants of Venice do not share enthusiasm – for them traghetti is a means of public transport, complementing Vaporetti water trams, not an attraction. Although they pay only 0.70 euros for a ticket, they believe that changes and higher prices for visitors are necessary.
While water trams stops have two separate entrances for residents and visitors (Venetians have priority there), several marina for traghetti does not work in this way. Long queues are formed in once calm places.
They want to remove stops from Google Maps
That is why the traghetti stops would disappear from the well -known page and applicationwhich will at least partly hide the means of transport from the growing interest of visitors. Cecilia Tonon, head of the group of the city council of Venezia è nostra (“Venice is ours”), says that she has been appealing to the authorities for years to deal with the problem of overcrowding at these marinas. Residents expect more crowds in less than a week, with the start of the International Film Festival in Venice.
Earlier, Barcelona decided to take a similar step. For many people traveling around Europe, Google maps integrating with public transport distributions are the easiest way to plan a trip.
The visibility of bus line No. 116 was quietly removed from Google and Apple maps, which stops at the Güell park designed by Antoni Gaudi. The agent turned out to be effective. According to one of the activists promoting this change on the city bus, it got looser.
