What changes in public transport during the Christmas holidays? The innovations, already announced with the Christmas plan, are not few and concern surface lines, interchange car parks, switching on gates and metropolitan services.
December 24th, 25th and 26th
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As for Christmas Eve, the entire daytime network, including buses, trams and metro, stops at 9pm: that is the time when the last trips are scheduled to depart from the terminals. However, night buses will operate regularly.
On Christmas day, the daytime network comes into service from 8.30am to 1pm and from 4.30pm to 9pm. The Termini-Centocelle line will be active until 1pm: in the afternoon you can use bus line 105. Regular night buses. Friday 26 December, Boxing Day, normal holiday timetable for the public transport network, with the metro active until 1.30 am.
New Year’s Eve
The service planned for New Year’s Eve is more complex. On December 31st the last metro runs are extended to 2.30 am. As for buses and trams, the last trips from the terminus leave at 9pm. There is no shortage of exceptions, designed to facilitate exchanges with the central area and with the metro.
In fact, the lines H Termini-via dei Capasso, 2 piazzale Flaminio-piazza Mancini, 128 Baldelli/metro B-Crocco, 170 Termini-Eur/piazzale dell’Agricoltura, 200 Prima Porta station-piazza Mancini, 280 Ostiense station-piazza Mancini, 301 Grottarossa-viale Giulio Cesare/Lepanto/metro remain on the street until 2 am. A, 336 Quarrata-Val d’Ala railway station, 544 Parco di Centocelle/metro C-Sant’Agnese-Annibaliano station/metro B1, 766 via Millevoi-Trastevere station, 881 Avanzini-via Paola and 905 Malagrotta-Cornelia ring road/metro A.
To give continuity to the service, from 2.30 am until 8 am on January 1st (when the entire network will resume travel during public holidays), the nMA, nMB, nMB1, nMC and nME bus lines will be on the road, which follow the same routes as the Metromare metro and railway.
ZTL timetables
The Christmas mobility plan also includes solutions, already underway, to safeguard the liveability of the Historic Centre. The result is that the Centro Storico and Tridente ZTLs change their opening hours for the holidays. Given that the two ZTLs will not be active at Christmas, here is how the opening hours will change on other days.
The limited traffic zone in the Historic Center remains active every day until December 24th, including Sundays and holidays, from 6.30am to 8pm. From December 26th until Epiphany it is active (holidays and Sundays always included) from 6.30am to 6.00pm.
As regards the limited traffic zone of the Trident, it remains active every day, until 6 January 2025, from 6am to 8pm. The timetables of the Trastevere daytime ZTL and all night-time ZTLs remain unchanged for the entire period.
Free lines and interchange parking lots
To reach the shopping streets in the historic centre, from 6 December to 6 January there will be 3 free circular bus lines leading to the heart of the Centro ZTL, connected to 3 interchange car parks at discounted rates (‘Piastra Termini’ car park for the Free 1 line; Partigiani/FS Ostiense car park for the Free 2 line; Villa Borghese car park for the 100 line).
From 6 December to 6 January, therefore, the new “Free 1” line Piazza dei Cinquecento – via Giolitti – viale Einaudi – MA Repubblica – via Nazionale – Traforo – via del Tritone – piazza San Silvestro – Largo Chigi remains active every day, from 9am to 9pm. The other line active in the same time slot is the new line “Free 2” Partigiani – Piramide (MB) – viale Aventino – Circo Massimo – piazza Venice – via del Corso – Largo Chigi. Finally, the 100 electric line is available (via di Porta Pinciana (Villa Borghese) – piazza Cavour – via di Porta Pinciana (Villa Borghese) which extends the service to public holidays, so it will be active every day from 9:00 to 20:00.