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A long line of traffic was backed up on the A90 motorway outside Rome on December 13, as environmentalists from the Ultima Generazione, or “last generation”, group blocked a lane.The ...
Line A of the Rome metro uses exclusively the CAF MA 300 series, line B essentially uses the CAF MB400 series together with other CAF MA300 series trains and the historic MB 100 Ansaldobreda. Line C is the longest driverless metro in Italy and one of the largest in Europe, using Hitachi Rail Italy's driverless technology. [9]
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Cassino–Naples, Rome–Albano, Rome–Frascati and Rome–Velletri railways. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. [2] It is estimated that on average about 55,000 passengers travel on an FL4 train each day.
' Great ring junction ') or GRA is a ring-shaped autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 68.2 kilometres (42.4 mi) long in Italy located in the region of Lazio that encircles Rome. It is a part of the E80 European route. GRA is one of the most important roads in Rome, and traffic reaches 160,000 vehicles per day as of 2011.
The Rome Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Roma) is a rapid transit system that operates in Rome, Italy. It started operation in 1955, making it the oldest in the country. The Metro comprises three lines – A (orange), B (blue) and C (green) – which operate on 60 km (37 mi) of route, serving 73 stations.
Italy was the first country in the world to build motorways reserved for fast traffic and for motor vehicles only. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"), the first built in the world, connecting Milan to Lake Como and Lake Maggiore , and now parts of the Autostrada A8 and Autostrada A9 , was devised by Piero Puricelli and was ...
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Work began in 1964 in the Tuscolana area and immediately ran into unexpected delays and difficulties, an example of which was the disruption caused to traffic in the south-east of Rome by the cut and cover method of digging. The work was suspended and resumed 5 years later, with tunnelling machines which, although helping to ease traffic ...