Transport
Atac and Rome city authorities have announced a series of incentives to persuade people to scrap their old cars and join a car-sharing scheme. The scheme, which is masterminded by the ministry of the environment, aims to...
The Pantano-S. Giovanni stretch of the new metro C line will be opening a year and a half earlier than predicted, Romes mayor Walter Veltroni has announced. The 21 stations of the Pantano-S.Giovanni section will be open...
Sunday 29 October will be a no-traffic day in Rome. From 10.00-18.00 no private vehicles will be permitted in the limited zones of the historic centre, parts of Trastevere, Via dei Fori Imperiali and Via Appia Antica as...
City transport authority Atac has launched a new service that enables drivers to pay for parking between blue lines via text message, internet or phone in addition to the usual parking metres and scratch cards. Drivers w...
The first of the cameras planned for various crossroads in the capital will go into action on 19 October on the Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the crossing with the Circonvallazione Ostiense. The cameras will photograph whoe...
A new station on the Roma Ostiense Cesano Viterbo railway line (Fr 3) has opened in the Viale Quattro Venti in Monteverde, a few days ahead of the scheduled opening. The station is an important step in Rome councils of...
A double fare system is causing confusion among passengers trying to take taxis into Rome from Fiumicino airport. On 1 October, a fixed tariff of 40 for trips between the airport and anywhere within the Aurelian walls ca...
There will be a nationwide 24-hour strike on Friday 6 October affecting all city transport. In Rome, buses, trams and local railways will be affected, although there will be two guaranteed phases of normal service, 05.30...
Industrial action scheduled at airports for Friday 29 September, due to have affected the entire sector, has been suspended. Trade union members will meet the prime minister Romano Prodi for talks at Palazzo Chigi on 10...
In a further tightening of the interpretation of the legal responsibilities of the car driver, the high court (Corte di Cassazione) has ruled that, if the driver of a car does not ensure passengers fasten their seatbelts...
City underground authority Met.Ro is to install 45 antiterrorism cameras on board carriages of the metro A line in October. The new security measure is aimed at helping to prevent possible terrorist attacks on the citys...
There have been 752 road accidents in the Lazio region between 1 July and 3 September resulting in 12 deaths. These are the statistics provided by the local traffic police, who reported that there have been over traffic...
Romes taxi drivers and city authorities have agreed on a set fare between the capital and its two airports that will come into force on 1 October. The cost of a trip between the historic centre and Fiumicino airport will...
City authorities are to increase protection for 27 km of Romes bus, tram and taxi lanes by spring 2007. The selected priority traffic lanes will be delineated using a raised plastic strip in order to deter other motorist...
The weekend of 26 and 27 August saw an estimated 10 million Italians return home from their summer holiday according to the consumer association Telefono Blu. In Rome heavy traffic and long delays were registered on the...
Agreement has been reached between the various transport entities in Lazio over an annual season ticket for Lazio commuters which will cover all forms of public transport in the region, including Atac and Acotral buses,...
The city councils announcement that the historic cobblestones or sampietrini on Via Nazionale are to go has sparked off protests from residents and various associations in the area, who want to save the historic air of t...
Trambus, one of the companies operating Romes tram and bus network has bought eight electric powered motor cycles for three teams of traffic wardens, to patrol the city streets to prevent illegal parking in places that s...
ACOTRAL, the Rome bus company running routes throughout the outskirts and the province of the city, has boosted its existing service from the Rome Stazione Tiburtina to the international airport at Fiumicino. There will...
Do you have any unpaid traffic fines that you hope have been forgotten about? Well be prepared for a shock. From the 19 July the tax collectors the Monte dei Paschi di Siena, who collect the outstanding taxes for the cit...
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