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Beach trains from Romes Porta S. Paolo to Lido di Ostia will be getting more than just a facelift from 1 October. Their frequency will increase from every 10 to every eight minutes, and by the end of the year they are ex...
Pay-and-display car parking will be introduced around the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Aventino from 19 September, costing 1 per hour. In S. Saba the area from Piazza di Porta S. Paolo...
Laws for motorcycle riders, introduced by the Italian parliament in August, are proving too severe, according to the national union of local and city police. The laws allow the police to confiscate a motorcycle under cer...
Three months and 50 million have been dedicated over the summer to improving the state of the roads in the city of Rome. When the city schools closed for the summer holidays, work began on 101 roads and piazzas, and more...
The Italian civil aviation authority, ENAC, has released the names of five airlines that are not allowed to fly to or over Italy. They have been added to the two airlines which were banned in 2004, (a third airline was o...
The provincial government of Bolzano in the northern Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy has decided to charge a toll to vehicles using two mountain passes that lead to Austria, the Stelvio and the Rombo passes. From sum...
The high price of oil may put plans to save Italys flagship airline Alitalia at risk. The airline, which has been working on a restructuring programme to cut costs, has thrashed out difficult agreements with the trades u...
Following the successful trial of 13 remote traffic control cameras on Italian roads, in use since July 2004, Italian police are set to install a further 16 cameras from Venice in the north to Sicily in the south of the...
Parking in Rome is set to get easier with a new car park along the Lungotevere, close to Piazza del Popolo. Construction of the Arnaldo da Brescia car park is due to start in September, having received a green light from...
Works on the road surface of Via del Tritone between Largo Chigi and Largo Tritone, one of the busiest intersection in Romes historic centre, started at the beginning of August. The works, which are due to be completed i...
Rome city council's urban parking plan foresees the creation of some 50,000 parking spaces for residents and commuters in and around the city centre over the next few years. With some 11,000 spots already opened and a fu...
Maintenance has begun on roads throughout Rome. More than 96 roads are due for attention in the first phase of works, which should be completed by September. Repairs were urgently needed before the heavy rain of the past...
Every day, one in two Italians commute, whether by car, train, bus or tram. According to a survey by the Italian statistics institute, Istat , 26 million people travel every day from one Italian city to another. Two thir...
The Rome city council has approved the creation of three new cycle paths. The areas involved are Mandrione, Tor Vergata and Ostia. Public tenders for the construction work will be published in the next few weeks and buil...
The ninth Thursday of restricted traffic in Rome is on 10 March. Vehicles with licence plates ending with an even number will not be allowed to circulate in the "fascia verde" - the green zone - between the 09.00 -12.00...
The Rome city council, the city's public transport company, ATAC and Legambiente, the environmental association, have introduced a new car-sharing scheme aimed at reducing the number of vehicles on the city's roads.
The...
There are currently 5,821 cabs in the capital but there may soon to be 6,121. The news was broken by the mayor Walter Veltroni, who announced a decision that has been taken by the city council. The number of taxis in the...
Vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number are banned from Romes roads on Thursday 3 March from 09.00-12.00 and 15.00-19.00. Sunday 6 March is a traffic-free day in the city. No vehicles can circulate from 10.00...
Ryanair, the Irish low-cost airline, has introduced two new routes between Rome and the United Kingdom: one flight a day to and from Liverpool (northwest England) and one a day to and from Durham (northeast England). The...
Young people from 14 - 17 can now study for their motorcycle driving licence on line The ministry of education and the road safety section of the national association of insurers, ANIA, are providing a free website to ma...
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