Transport
On Wednesday 19 May, city transport workers are striking from 21.00 until the end of the evening shift and there will be a severe reduction of buses, trams and metropolitan trains.
From 21.00 on Thursday 20 May, until t...
Sunday 16 May will be the last traffic free day in Rome until late in the summer. The areas of the city which will be closed to private traffic, including mopeds, will be the historic centre, Trastevere and the Esquilino...
New traffic restrictions in Trastevere will come into effect on Friday 7 May. From then the area will be closed to all but local traffic on Friday and Saturday nights from 21.00 - 03.00.
Trastevere, one of the most pop...
A steam train will be running to Rome's horse racing track, the Ippodromo di Capannelle, on three days in May. Timed to coincide with three important races, on Sat 1 May, Sun 16 May and Sun 30 May, a steam locomotive fro...
Since the boat service on the river Tiber in Rome started operating in April 2003, 250,000 passengers have used it. Of these, 170,000 have used the fleet of five boats running a scheduled service from the Tiber Island to...
Night-time public transport is under discussion in Rome 22 - 24 April at an international forum being held to compare the experiences of cities worldwide. With ever more people working in shifts around the clock, and wit...
People travelling on Alitalia in the next few weeks should check that their flights are running normally before they leave for the airport. The management of Alitalia is working on a plan to save the ailing airline but w...
Italian minister for infrastructure and transport, Pietro Lunardi, has confirmed that it is now legally possible to drive at a maximum of 150 kms an hour, instead of the normal maximum 130 kms an hour, on certain stretch...
Italians are warming up slightly to public transportation, according to a study carried out by traffic observatory Isfort, on behalf of the local transport agency Asstra, based on a 15,000-strong sample group. The study...
In its efforts to keep air pollution under control Rome's city authorities are cutting the number of private vehicles allowed on the roads mid-week. Admission to the area within the city's ring road (Gran Raccordo Anular...
Owners of Rome's motorbikes, mopeds and scooters that were registered in 1993 or before are hurrying to obtain a certificate called a bollino blu to state that their vehicles emit acceptable levels of gas. If they don't...
A national strike by urban public transport workers has been re-scheduled from 26 to 30 Jan. In Rome the buses, trams and metro will be affected from 08.30-17.00 and from 20.00-24.00, but services are expected to be avai...
Half of Rome's cars have been banned from circulating within the fascia verde, which roughly corresponds to the area inside the Grande Raccordo Anulare ring-road, from 15.00-19.00 on Wednesdays. Under new rules introduce...
New transport strikes are scheduled again now that the festive season it over. On Friday 9 January urban public transport systems throughout the country will come to a standstill for most of the day. Similar strikes in N...
According to a survey conducted at the beginning of December at two primary schools in Rome 83 per cent of the children who were driven to school by their parents did not wear their safety belts. This compares with 64 pe...
Trade unions in Italy are not allowed to strike during the holiday period 17 Dec-8 Jan but stoppages in the transport sector are scheduled before these dates. Railway workers belonging to the Orsa trade union have announ...
A new train service starting mid-December will connect the suburban stations of Milano Rogoredo to Roma Tiburtina in three hours fifty five minutes. The trains will still begin and end their journeys at Milano Centrale a...
The office that deals with the appeals of Rome car owners who believe they have received motoring fines unfairly or whose payments have not been registered will now hear only a limited number of cases each day. The city...
The lively district of S. Lorenzo will be closed to private traffic, excluding drivers with access permits, every Friday and Saturday night 20.00-03.00 from 1 December in an attempt to ease congestion in one of the city'...
Public transport may suffer industrial action on Monday 1 December from 08.30 until 16.30 when a strike is scheduled to halt buses, trams, the metro and COTRAL buses that connect Rome with the suburbs.
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