Transport
Reports of corruption in Italy rose by 229 per cent in 2009 over the previous year according to the state audit court, or Corte dei Conti, which controls possible irregularities in public spending.
Complaints of misapp...
Travellers in Italy can expect disruptions over the next few days due to strikes or threats of strikes in various sectors.
Pilots and flight attendants working for the Italian flag carrier Alitalia are striking on 16 F...
Plans to increase the price of a taxi ride between the centre of Rome and Fiumicino airport from
Rome is to get two new tram lines under plans announced by local public transport provider ATAC. The new lines will be called 4 and 6 and they will take to 8 the number of operating tram lines in the capital.
Line 4 is...
Lufthansa Italia, the Italian subsidiary of the German airline Lufthansa, has announced that it will be suspending its Rome Fiumicino-Milan Malpensa service as of 16 February due to competition from Alitalia on the Rome-...
There will be disruptions to public transport services in and around Rome on 20 January as a result of a transport strike.
Services on the city
Ryanair has withdrawn its threat to suspend all its domestic flights within Italy from 23 January in the wake of a compromise reached with the country
The busy bus stop in Via del Plebiscito in front of the Rome residence of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been removed for security reasons.
It was the stopping point for 13 daytime and five night time buses on the...
Ryanair is threatening to stop its domestic flights throughout Italy on 23 January unless the country
December sees the arrival of the first of eight new trains on Rome
Few people are aware that women taking a taxi in Rome between 21.00-01.00 are entitled to a ten per cent discount on the fare. The discount is available from white licensed taxis and also applies to anyone travelling to...
Labour unions in Italy have called a 24-hour general strike on 23 October over budget cuts to education and other sectors, job cuts and working conditions generally.
The strike will mean disruptions to public transpor...
There will be disruptions to public transport services in and around Rome on 2 October due to two separate strikes.
Services on the city
Some new electric minibuses have arrived to replace the 30 vehicles destroyed in the fire at the Atac bus depot in Via delle Mura Portuensi in Trastevere on 2 May 2009. The remaining vehicles will arrive over the next fe...
A new public transport route is now open between the metro station at Anagnina and the university and Policlinico (general hospital) at Tor Vergata.
The eight-kilometre route has been revamped to make bus journeys qui...
Roughly eight million vehicles are expected to be on the roads over the weekend of 1-2 August as the summer holiday season begins in earnest. The company in charge of most Italian motorways, ANAS, says most of the traffi...
Rome public transport company ATAC has inaugurated a new terminus at Termini station for the 5 and 14 tram lines, which connect the southeastern suburbs along the Via Prenestina to the main train station.
The new termin...
Public transport strikes are scheduled for Rome on 7-8 July.
On 7 July there are possible stoppages until the end of service called by the grass-roots members of the independent unions Cub, Cobas and Sdl in protest aga...
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