Transport
The Lazio regional government of has just completed a survey of the eight main commuter railway routes to the capital run by Trenitalia. Eight hundred local trains carry 300,000 passengers a day and the survey found that...
Low cost airlines are offering new destinations for travellers to and from Rome and some of the regular airlines have introduced special low price tickets for the low season winter months.
Wizz, the Hungarian-based line...
Rome's metro line A will be closing early from October 2004 to October 2007. The exact date to the start of the project has yet to be announced. The 21.00 closure, which has been announced by Rome's office for mobility,...
The next traffic free day in Rome will be on Sunday 26 September. The "ZTL" the zones of the city where traffic is limited, which includes the historic centre, Trastevere and S. Lorenzo, will be closed to all private c...
Ten new Iveco double-decker buses are to operate on the tourist route 110 in Rome.
The roofless red buses have special features that will allow easy boarding, alighting and increased comfort for the disabled.
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On 15 September there is a 24-hour countrywide local public- transport strike. Rome's city buses and the underground will strike from 8.30-17.00 and then again after 20.00.
Critical Mass is an international event that takes place in more than 200 cities around the world the last Friday of every month. The idea is for a mass of cyclists to take to the roads together in order to force polluti...
Anyone flying from an Italian airport who wishes to be reassured about the reliability of the company they are flying with (particularly charter companies), may now telephone a toll free telephone number: 800 898 121, to...
A survey conducted in Rome in July by the Osservatore sulla mobilit found that of the 286,813 vehicles coming daily into the centre of the city, an area which is restricted to permit holding vehicles, 51 per cent were mo...
The Rome city council has plans to remove all private cars from the central area between the Piazza del Popolo, Via del Babuino and Via di Ripetta and to make Via del Corso a pedestrian precinct. The city's agency respon...
Stricter controls have come into force around Rome to combat the misuse of parking permits for the disabled. The problem has arisen because relatives and friends continue to use these permits even after the death of the...
A joint promotion called "Return home safely" has been launched by the Italian road police, 20 discotheque owners and an association of insurance companies in Lazio, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The aim of the promotion i...
Illegal parking attendants continue to be a serious problem on the seafront at Ostia. These self-appointed foreign and Italian parking attendants demand money to park and look after your car as you head to the beach for...
Summer train promotion
Trenitalia has just announced its summer promotion which allows travel in a first class compartments for the price of a second class ticket. The offer runs on Tues and Wed until 8 Sept and is val...
The Rome city bus company ATAC is changing bus routes and adding new buses to some routes on summer Sundays and holidays from 25 July until the end of September. Mauro Calamante, the president of ATAC, has announced that...
A new express bus service between EUR Fermi metro station and Ostia Lido was inaugurated on 10 July. The 070 express will run every ten minutes from EUR to Castelfusano between 09.00 and 11.000 and then on the return jo...
As from1 July everyone in Italy between the age of 14 and 18 must have a licence to drive a moped or a 50 cc miniature motorcar. To obtain the licence it is necessary to pass an oral but not a practical driving exam.
Th...
From 1 July young people, from 14 18 years old, must have a licence (or patentino) to drive a motorino or a micro car, even the lowest powered ones. 702,500 out of 1,500,000 students have applied to take the necessary c...
Via Tiburtina, between Rome and Tivoli, is the most dangerous of the citys roads, according to a study by Romes traffic authority, Sta, of traffic accidents in the capital last year, with just over 250 accidents that res...
The introduction by Italian traffic police of "telelaser" machinery, small cameras which register the speed at which a vehicle is travelling has meant an increase in speeding fines of 21 per cent since the introduction o...
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