Inside Italy For Members Inside Italy: How bad are Italy’s taxi shortages and will things ever improve? Giampietro Vianello - [email protected] Published: 29 Mar, 2025 CET.
Updated: Sat 29 Mar 2025 10:01 CET Share Add a comment Taxi drivers wait for customers at a taxi rank in Rome's Piazza Venezia. Photo by Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP In this week’s Inside Italy review, we look at how severe taxi shortages are in Italian cities and whether things are likely to improve at all as passengers continue reporting long queues and endless waiting times. Advertisement Inside Italy is our weekly look at some of the news, talking points and gossip from Italy that you might not have heard about.
It’s published each Saturday and members can receive it directly to their inbox, by going to their newsletter preferences or adding their email to the sign-up box in this article. If there’s one thing about Italy that international residents and frequent visitors to the country often complain about, it's taxis. Long queues and interminable waiting times when trying to hail a ride are far from uncommon, especially in popular tourist destinations and major cities such as Rome, Milan and Naples.
The problem is anything but new. News reports of holidaymakers and residents having to wait well over an hour for a taxi ride have figured extensively in both national and international media in recent years. In June 2023, Italy’s newspaper of record Il Corriere della Sera described the s.
