Transport
The Rome city councillor responsible for traffic, Mauro Calamante, has announced that work will begin on Romes new underground line C at the beginning of May. The underground, which will be one of the biggest constructi...
Automatic ticket machines are to be installed on a third of Romes buses over the next three months, enabling passengers to buy tickets on board. Some 1,000 new machines will be introduced on all electric buses and tram l...
Around one in three commuter trains arriving at Romes Termini station are late, according to a survey conducted by Legambiente in March. Over a five-day period, 110 out of 340 trains monitored between 06.30 and 09.30 in...
Until the 24 March there were only 48 electronic notice boards on four bus routes at Romes bus stops but on 25 March the mayor, Walter Veltroni announced that a further 192 had gone into service and by 30 April there wil...
On Thursday 23 March only vehicles with licence plates ending in an even number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 23 March will be the...
A local public transport strike has been confirmed all over Italy to take place on Monday 6 March. The strike has been called by the transport section of all the major Italian trades union movements to protest about the...
The Rome underground railway system is likely to be brought to a halt on Monday 27 February, due to a strike called by SULT the transport workers trades union. Only 100 of the 420 train drivers on the Rome underground ar...
On Thursday 16 February only vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 16 February will b...
The long-awaited railway ring around Rome (anello ferroviario) is to be completed by 2010 and is being dubbed as a new metro line for the city. Work on the north section of the ring in the Tor di Quinto area of the cit...
On Thursday 2 February only vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will be permitted to circulate in the "fascia verde or green zone. This will be the third Thursday in a series of ten when, to help reduce...
Manzoni metro station on Linea A will close for 11 months from 30 January for major restructuring work. The station, in the S.Giovanni area of the city, will be fitted with new escalators and an improved air ventilation...
The public prosecutor for the city of Civitavecchia has opened an enquiry into strikes at the Italian flag-ship airline Alitalia on the grounds the disruption of the airlines schedules may be considered an interruption...
Romes first consignment of new methane buses will begin servicing some of the citys most polluted routes in February. Rome city bus company Atac expects to put around 30 new buses on the road each month until July, when...
The regional railways catalogue of delays, dirty carriages and cancellations in Lazio in 2005 could cost them 800,000 in fines according to a report in Italian daily La Repubblica. It will be the first time that the comp...
A digital revolution is set to clear the 250,000 appeals against fines brought every year by people living in Rome, some 80 per cent of which involve traffic offences. In this way, the council hopes to clear its backlog...
A series of air and rail transport strikes are threatening travel in Italy after the Christmas holidays officially end on 7 January. On Monday 9 January four-hour national strike from 12.00-16.00. On Thursday 12 January...
A whole raft of measures including satellite monitoring, direct telephone links to the emergency services, onboard video cameras and payment card facilities, all intended to improve the safety of taxi drivers, are being...
In the latest changes by the Rome city councils to its parking regulations there will be an increase in parking fees for non-residents (from 1 per hour to 1.50 per hour) in central areas. But in other areas close to hosp...
The inauguration of the new high-speed train (TAV) from Rome to Naples scheduled on 21 December was postponed following the rail crash on 20 December near Frosinone on the Rome-Cassino line which injured 59 people, 11 of...
A new train station was officially opened mid December at Parco Leonardo in Via Portuense close to Fiumicino international airport. Fiumicino-Parco Leonardo, as it is called, is on the line FR1 Fiumicino Aeroporto-Roma....
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