Editing Calabria (section)

===Motorways and rail===

The region is served by three heavily used roads: two national highways along the coasts (the SS18 between [[Naples]] and Reggio Calabria and the SS106 between Reggio Calabria and [[Taranto]]) and the [[Autostrada A2 (Italy)|A2 motorway]],<ref>{{in lang|it}} ''...una vera e propria «vergogna italiana»'', in [http://www.almcalabria.it/calabriaradicale/a3/la-storia-della-salerno-reggio-calabria/ La storia della Salerno Reggio Calabria] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722023438/http://www.almcalabria.it/calabriaradicale/a3/la-storia-della-salerno-reggio-calabria/ |date=22 July 2011 }}, book about Salerno-Reggio Calabria</ref> which links [[Salerno]] to Reggio Calabria, passing by [[Cosenza]] along the old inland route. [[Autostrada A3 (Italy)#Overview)|Building this motorway]] took 55 years and was extremely over budget due to organized crime infiltration.<ref>''Organised crime may be behind problems with southern motorway: Awkward questions remain about Italian infrastructure'', in [http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/organised-crime-may-be-behind-problems-with-southern-motorway-1.1478824] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054517/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/organised-crime-may-be-behind-problems-with-southern-motorway-1.1478824|date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

The main road infrastructures can be classified into two separate groups, the first including the road infrastructures that cross the whole of Calabria from north to south:
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|[[File:Autostrada A2 del Mediterraneo - Italia.svg|alt=Simbolo dell'Autostrada A2 del Mediterraneo|50x50px|A2]]|| [[Autostrada A2 (Italy)|Autostrada A2 del Mediterraneo]]<br />(278+400 km su 432+600 km) || Start from [[Autostrada A30 (Italy)|A30]] near [[Fisciano]]|| [[Reggio Calabria]] || Free || [[File:Zeichen 361-51.svg|20px]]  Yes
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|[[File:Strada Statale 106 Italia.svg|50px|SS 206]] || [[Strada statale 106 Jonica]]<br />(415,000 km su 491+000km) ||[[Taranto]] ||  [[Reggio Calabria]] || Free || [[File:Zeichen 361-51.svg|20px]]  Yes
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|[[File:Strada Statale 18 Italia.svg|50px|SS 18]] || [[Strada statale 18 Tirrena Inferiore]]<br />(535,132 km) || [[Napoli]] || [[Reggio Calabria]] || Free || [[File:Zeichen 361-51.svg|20px]]  Yes
|}

The second group includes the roads, which run through the region from the Tyrrhenian coast to the Ionian coast (west-east) .

There is high-speed rail on Calabria's Tyrrhenian Coast with the [[Frecciargento]] (Silver Arrow) offering a route from Rome to Reggio Calabria. There are also many ferries connecting Calabria with Sicily through the [[Strait of Sicily]] with the main one being from [[Villa San Giovanni]] to Messina.