Car Hire
If you want to rent a car you should have a credit card and International Driving License. Daily payment is not less than $ 90. The longer is the hire term the lower a daily rate will be.
Many petrol stations do not work after 19.00, have 2-3 hours daily breaks and are closed on Sundays. Petrol stations at the main highways work day and night.
Italian drivers strictly follow the rules of the road, so if you rent a car pay attention at the signs and notices on the road.
Speed limits in Italy are the following: city 50 km/h, state roads 90 km/h, 100 km/h, 130 km/h.
Fines for exceeding speed limit by 5 km/h is $ 35, by 30 km/h - $ 250, more than 30 km/h - $ 500 and withdrawal of driving license. Other fines: wrong stop on the highway - $ 35, driving at the red light - $ 100, wrong parking - $ 60. Fines for drunk driving are very high. Penalties including imprisonment are possible. Road police in Italy is very strict.
Chronic traffic problems led to the banning of unauthorized traffic from the central part of city during workdays from 6.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (this area is officially called Zona a Traffico Limitato, Z.T.L. in short).
Heavy traffic due to night-life crowds during week-ends led in recent years to the creation of other Z.T.L. in the Trastevere and S.Lorenzo districts during the night ant to the experimentation of a new nigh Z.T.L. also in the city center.
In recent uears parking spaces along the sheets in wide arrears have been converted to pay-parkings, as new underground parkings spread throughout the city.
Still traffic remains an unsolved problem.