Milan’s Ecopass is back from its Vacation

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August 25, 2008· Filed Under Milan  Tags: , , , , ,

As Milan crawls slowly back to life after the summer recess, its Ecopass traffic anti-pollution charge comes back on-line.

A map of Milan’s Ecopass zone is shown in the following post.

After a three week summer pause, which I mentioned in my Milan’s Ecopass Goes on Vacation post, the Italian city’s Ecopass system fired up again today, Monday 25th August.  This means that if you want to bring certain categories of car into the centre of the city, from today, you will have to pay, again.

For more information on this system, see my Ecopass Milan post from January of this year.

As a side note, many Milanese have been complaining that the Ecopass zone is poorly indicated, and I can sympathise with them.  In my area for example, Via Paolo Sarpi/Corso Sempione, which is not within the Ecopass zone, there are confusing signs which give the impression that you are on the point of entering the area within which an Ecopass payment must be made.

These signs are misleading and should really read, ‘You are close to the Ecopass Zone’ or suchlike.  Here is a link to the English version of the Ecopass brochure, in .pdf format.  This guide shows the actual Ecopass designated area.  For ease of reference, here is the map from the guide which shows the Ecopass zone:

The Ecopass Zone, Milan, Italy

The Ecopass Zone, Milan, Italy

Hopefully the Milan authorities won’t mind my borrowing this image from their guide.

If I learn of any changes to the Ecopass, I’ll let you know, and please get in touch if you want to ask a question or highlight a problem, and I’ll attempt to be useful.

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