Transport
Petrol stations will be shut from 19.00 on Tuesday 6 February until 07.00 on Friday 9 February in protest against the a new law liberalising the sale of fuel passed by the government at the end of January. The new measur...
Car sales in Italy in the month of January 2007, at about 300,000, are three and a half per cent higher than in January 2006. Of these cars, 78,000, or 31.4 per cent were of the Fiat group (against 30.7 per cent in 2006...
Three new stations were inaugurated on the Roma Tiburtina-Guidonia (FR2) railway line to the east of the city centre on 1 February. Trains now make two stops on the stretch between Stazione Prenestina and Tor Sapienza at...
According to a report in free newspaper Leggo the new train station of Quattro Venti, which was inaugurated in November last year, is in a state of neglect.
The Quattro Venti station is situated in viale dei Quattro Ve...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers will be banned from the city
To celebrate 60 years since its founding, Ferrari yesterday began a
According to figures released by Asaps (Associazione amici sostenitori della Polstrada), the numbers of those stopped by the road police and fined for talking on mobiles while driving has risen from 36,517 in 2005 to 40,...
Eleven bidders stepped forward to express interest in buying up a large chunk of the Italian government
The city has announced that it will demolish the elevated tract of the urban motorway known as the Tangenziale Est. Since its inception in the 1970s, the Tangenziale Est has been a bone of contention between city planne...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers will be banned from the city
Trenitalia will step up ticket controls on board its regional trains as from Tuesday 16 January.The state-controlled train company has announced that its
Drivers not stopping when they are involved in an accident could receive four months to a year in prison, as well as a fine and the suspension of their driving licence. This applies even if the injuries to those involved...
Rail fares in Italy go up 9 per cent on average from 1 January. The price rises apply to Eurostar, Alta Velocit
This year has been a record year from the airports of Rome, with 35 million passengers landing at Fiumicino or Ciampino during 2006, registering a 6,7 per cent increase from 2005.
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The public transport strike scheduled for Friday 15 December has been cancelled by all the large trade unions. Some of the smaller trade unions are going ahead with the industrial action, however, so some disruption to R...
Five bus lines designed especially for Christmas shoppers will run from 8-23 December (except for 17 December), Romes transport authority Atac has announced. The five bus lines will link the ex mercati generali in Via Os...
A ban on motorcycles and scooters that fall into the Euro 0 polluting category will be phased in from 1 January 2007 in Romes ZTL anello ferrovario an area inside the capitals green zone that extends to Piramide in the...
The new station at Viale dei Quattro Venti in Monteverde on the FR3 Rome-Cesano-Viterbo train line was officially inaugurated in November. All trains now stop at Quattro Venti, between the S. Pietro and Trastevere statio...
A small number of Romes taxi drivers have decided not to respect fixed fares between the city centre and the airport and have announced they will go on strike on 28 November. The move by the drivers follows city authorit...
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