First “ecological Sunday” in Rome. On November 20, no cars in the green band, with traffic allowed only to authorized vehicles. It will be the first of five “ecological Sundays” for which, with an order from the mayor of Rome Capital Roberto Gualtieri, traffic will be blocked for all internal combustion engine vehicles in the ZTL ‘Green Band’ area from 7.30 at 12.30 and from 16.30 to 20.30. The other selected dates are: 4 December 2022, 8 January 2023, 5 February 2023 and 26 March 2023.

Schedules and vehicles that cannot circulate

The traffic ban will be total for private traffic. These are the times: no cars from 7.30 to 12.30 and from 16.30 to 20.30. All petrol vehicles up to the Euro 5 environmental class will stop. The blocked diesel vehicles will instead be those up to Euro 6. Also stop motorcycles and 4-stroke two-wheeled mopeds prior, respectively, to the Euro 3 and Euro 2 environmental classes .

Who can circulate

Green light for electric vehicles, hybrids, Euro 6 petrol cars, natural gas and LPG vehicles, car-sharing vehicles, those with a disability sticker and 4-stroke motorcycles and mopeds after Euro 3 and Euro 2.

The map of the green belt in Rome

“Thus reducing polluting emissions”

“The ‘ecological Sundays’ are measures that contribute to the reduction of polluting emissions but, above all, they constitute opportunities for raising awareness on environmental sustainability and on the good practices to be adopted to improve the quality of the air we breathe to protect our health and the quality of the “city environment. This is why we wanted to bring the dates for the 2022-2023 winter season from four to five. On the reduction of atmospheric pollution we must make up for a delay of over ten years which has contributed, at national level, to the application of infringement procedures and condemnation by the European Court of Justice. We are required above all to observe the provisions of the recovery plan quality of the air in the Lazio Region and we are working to achieve the goals of decarbonisation and the achievement of climate neutrality by 2030 for which the European Commission has included Rome among the 100 European cities that will be pioneers”, says Sabrina Alfonsi , Councilor for Agriculture, Environment and Waste Cycle.

The green band

With a recent resolution by the Gualtieri council, the green band was also changed [qui la mappa]. Changes not without controversy. No changes for the south and east quadrants of the city. The boundaries of the Green Band along via Palmiro Togliatti, via Appia Nuova and via Ardeatina remain unchanged, with the Torricola area included in the limited traffic zone. The boundaries of the Green Belt in Portuense move from via del Trullo, via Affogalasino and via del Casaletto towards via Isacco Newton. Unchanged those on via Leone XIII with the gates bordering Villa Doria Pamphili. New instead in western Rome: in the new map of the Green Belt the area of ​​via Aurelia up to the Grande Raccordo Anulare no longer appears with the “gates” located along the Circonvallazione Aurelia, Circonvallazione Cornelia and then, as in the past, always along via della Pineta Sacchetti .

Reduced green belt to the west and extended to the north where, while maintaining the border on via Vilfredo Pareto and via Giovanni Fabbroni, the Campidoglio provision expands the area of ​​the ban on the circulation of the most polluting vehicles well beyond the past via dei Due Ponti . In Gualtieri’s Rome, the Green Band reaches as far as Labaro. Thus, the strip of the city between via Salaria up to the crossroads of via Bolognola and via Flaminia Nuova up to the Grande Raccordo Anulare, excluding consular posts, ends up in the area with traffic restrictions. In the Green Band, therefore, they distinguish districts such as Castel Giubileo and Saxa Rubra with lots of stations and exchange car parks such as those of Saxa Rubra, Grottarossa, Due Ponti, Tor di Quinto and Vigna Clara.

Hence the protests in northern Rome [leggi qui la notizia].

The next ecological Sundays

The next ones ecological Sundays are scheduled for December 4, 2022, January 8, 2023, February 5, 2023 and March 26, 2023.

All exceptions

1. electric and hybrid traction vehicles;
2. vehicles powered by methane, LPG and BI-FUEL vehicles (petrol / LPG or methane), also converted, running on LPG or methane;
3. vehicles with positive ignition (petrol) ‘EURO 6’;
4. 2-wheel mopeds with 4-stroke ‘EURO 2’ and later engines;
5. ‘EURO 3″ and later 4-stroke motorcycles;
6. vehicles used for police and security services, including social emergencies, including assistance, including roadside assistance, and the transport of corpses;
7. vehicles used for emergency maintenance services and public utilities (such as, for example, water, electricity, gas, telephone, lifts, safety systems, traffic regulation systems, railway systems, heating and air conditioning systems) which are identifiable either with an adequate mark or with certification from the employer;
8. vehicles used for transport, waste disposal and hygienic-environmental protection, for emergency management of green areas, for civil protection and for urgent restoration of urban decorum;
9. vehicles for public and private collective transport;
10. vehicles regulated pursuant to DAC n. 66/2014 and no. 55/2018;
11. taxis and cars for hire with driver, provided with municipal concessions;
12. vehicles used for car sharing, car pooling, Home to Work Travel Plan (PSCL) services activated on the basis of specific measures of the Ministry of the Environment and of the Protection of the Territory and the Sea or of the Capitoline Administration;
13. vehicles with CD, SCV and CV plates;
14. vehicles equipped with the badge for disabled persons provided for by Presidential Decree 503 of 24 July 1996;
15. vehicles used by doctors and vets for urgent home visits, bearing the sticker issued by the respective Order: vehicles used by paramedics in home assistance service with certificate issued by the public or private institution to which they belong;
16. vehicles used for the transport of people subjected to indispensable and non-deferable therapies or health treatments for the treatment of serious injuries, able to exhibit the relative medical certification and vehicles used for the transport of people aimed at carrying out related health checks or treatments to COVID-19;
17. vehicles used for the transport of people subject to security measures;
18. motor vehicles used for the transport of perishable goods, for the distribution of periodicals and postal items; 19. vehicles with a maximum mass not exceeding 3.5 tons, used for the transport of medicines and/or the transport of medical equipment for urgent and non-deferrable use, adequately certified, as well as for the transport of valuables;
20. vehicles used for the transport of people who are reported to be attending religious ceremonies scheduled prior to the date of this Ordinance, wedding or funeral ceremonies, provided that the drivers are in possession of special invitations or certificates issued by the officiating ministries;
21. vehicles of daily information operators in service, equipped with an identification card and with certification from the editorial staff, or used for the transport of materials to support the television filming service (e.g. filming tools, generators, radio links, etc. ) relating to television news;
22. vehicles used by air traffic controllers on duty at Ciampino and Fiumicino airports, upon presentation of the specific certificate issued by ENAV SpA;
23. motor vehicles and two-wheeled motor vehicles used by workers with working shifts or domicile/workplace such as to prevent the use of public transport means, with appropriate certification from the employer;
24. vehicles used for work on the construction sites of the underground lines under construction;
25. vehicles or work vehicles that carry out removals for which authorizations have previously been issued for the occupation of public land by the competent offices;
26. vehicles of companies that carry out work on behalf of Roma Capitale or on behalf of sub-service companies, provided with adequate documentation from the Entity for which they work or that carry out planned interventions with authorization from the director;
27. vehicles used for the implementation of initiatives promoted or sponsored by Roma Capitale provided with specific documentation issued by the competent Sectors or stickers issued by the organization;
28. vehicles used in the organization of events for which concession documents have previously been issued to occupy public land, provided with specific documentation issued by the competent Sectors;
29. vehicles of itinerant traders of the Sunday markets, used only for work, limited to the strictly necessary route to and from one’s home;
30. vehicles of priests and ministers of worship of any confession for the functions of their ministry;
31. vehicles of sports associations or clubs belonging to federations affiliated to CONI or other officially recognized federations, or used by members of the same with a declaration from the president indicating the place and time of the sporting event in which the member is directly involved;
32. motor vehicles used by those who are obliged to comply with sentences and decrees of both criminal and civil Courts provided with adequate certification;
33. vehicles used for emergency interventions by UNEP officials and by the bailiffs of the Court of Appeal of Rome, duly provided with the specific certification of the Presidency of the same Court of Appeal;
34. motor vehicles used by entities operating in the film, television and audiovisual fields for filming. audiovisual and photographic for which the relative concession deeds of occupation of public land by the Department of Cultural Activities have been previously released.