The cabinet has approved a package of laws in an effort to improve road safety in Italy after 42 people died in car accidents over the weekend of 2-4 March. The country holds one of the worst road safety records in Europ...
Fines for double parking in Rome can be made even in the absence of the municipal police. It is enough that an offence be registered by one of the surveillance cameras installed by the city in areas where double and tr...
Petrol stations will be shut from 19.00 on Tuesday 6 February until 07.00 on Friday 9 February in protest against the a new law liberalising the sale of fuel passed by the government at the end of January. The new measur...
Car sales in Italy in the month of January 2007, at about 300,000, are three and a half per cent higher than in January 2006. Of these cars, 78,000, or 31.4 per cent were of the Fiat group (against 30.7 per cent in 2006...
Three new stations were inaugurated on the Roma Tiburtina-Guidonia (FR2) railway line to the east of the city centre on 1 February. Trains now make two stops on the stretch between Stazione Prenestina and Tor Sapienza at...
According to a report in free newspaper Leggo the new train station of Quattro Venti, which was inaugurated in November last year, is in a state of neglect.
The Quattro Venti station is situated in viale dei Quattro Ve...
According to figures released by Asaps (Associazione amici sostenitori della Polstrada), the numbers of those stopped by the road police and fined for talking on mobiles while driving has risen from 36,517 in 2005 to 40,...
The city has announced that it will demolish the elevated tract of the urban motorway known as the Tangenziale Est. Since its inception in the 1970s, the Tangenziale Est has been a bone of contention between city planne...
Trenitalia will step up ticket controls on board its regional trains as from Tuesday 16 January.The state-controlled train company has announced that its
Drivers not stopping when they are involved in an accident could receive four months to a year in prison, as well as a fine and the suspension of their driving licence. This applies even if the injuries to those involved...
This year has been a record year from the airports of Rome, with 35 million passengers landing at Fiumicino or Ciampino during 2006, registering a 6,7 per cent increase from 2005.
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