Rome trams again on monitor after two months

Tram community resumes service from 8 December.

Rome’s tram community returns to full operation, with some modifications, on Monday 8 December after a two-month closure to facilitate upkeep works.

For the previous two months Rome has changed the trams with free buses whereas highway infrastructure firm Anas carried out main works on the Tangenziale Est ring highway and town undertook numerous monitor renewal tasks.

However the return of the trams on Monday, a public vacation in Italy for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, won’t be utterly again to regular, no less than initially.

From 9-12 December tram traces 3 and eight will bear modifications, whereas line 14 will proceed to be partially changed by buses because of the Togliatti tramway building website.

The day after the trams resume service – Tuesday 9 December – Rome’s public transport community will probably be affected by a 24-hour strike.

Here is the knowledge intimately for every of town’s six tram traces, as printed by Rome’s mobility web site, with impact from Monday 8 December.

Line 2: Regular service returns between Piazzale Flaminio and Piazza Mancini.

Line 3: Tram 3 will return between Valle Giulia and Trastevere station. Evening bus service for 4 days. From 9-12 December, adjustments will probably be made because of the closure of Viale del Parco del Celio for the Carme challenge on the Caelian Hill. Trams will run till 20.35, after which the Trastevere–Porta Maggiore route will probably be coated by shuttle bus 3. Stops stay unchanged, with exceptions deliberate within the Celio space and in Piazza di Porta Capena.

Line 5: Regular service between Termini and Piazza dei Gerani.

Line 8: Evening service changed from 9-12 December because of the Celio building work. From 19.00 onwards, trams will probably be changed by buses alongside your complete Casaletto–Piazza Venezia route. Starting 13 December, the usual prolonged timetable will return, with an extension till 03.00 on weekends.

Line 14: Shuttle service continues on the Togliatti line, with trams solely working between Termini and Largo Preneste. The 14NAV bus stays operational on the Preneste–Viale Palmiro Togliatti route, with stops on the suspended tram platforms.

Line 19: Line 19 maintains the Piazza dei Gerani–Valle Giulia route, whereas the connection between Valle Giulia and Viale Giulio Cesare is supplied by the 19NAV bus. The bus stops mirror the tram stops, with the addition of stops on Via Flaminia and Via Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa.

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