autopatrolled
12
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Rome
,no edit summary
== Public transport ==
There were hardly any checks on tickets in buses, and you could even take a bus from [[Sabaudia]] (90 kilometers away) without paying for a ticket - until November 2007, when there was an increase in the number of officials checking for tickets on buses and trams in Roma. This is said to be a direct result of new systems in the metro requiring less man-power there. Just keep your eyes open, officials are easy to spot and to avoid. In 2009, some people were fined in a tram; they were caught while they were leaving. You can buy tickets in bars or in news-stalls.
It is very hard to be fined for not having a ticket in Rome, but it may happen (as of 2017). One good method is to purchase a ticket but not validate it. Spend your journey beside one of the yellow validation machines (check it is not "out of service" first - fuori servizio), so that in case an official checkers arrives, you can validate it. You can keep going for months like this in Rome.
If you want to take the metro you need a ticket. In some metro stations you can try to enter 2 people with 1 ticket if no officials are looking.
If you are using the "trenino" (small train) from ''Termini'' to ''Centocelle'', keep in mind that at the 2 end stations (Roma Laziali at Termini, and Centocelle) you have to validate the ticket like on the metro but at any other station you don't. So you can just walk one station and board on the train.
__NOTOC__
