How To Pay Pisa Traffic Violations

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under Speeding fines · 15 Comments 

Many have been caught out once, if not twice, by Pisa’s poorly signposted honey-trap restricted traffic zone or ZTL/TZV.

Seeing as people seem to be having problems understanding just how to pay these fines, and the Pisa authorities are not helping matters since they have not yet got round to translating sections of their site into English.  Really, they have no incentive to seeing as they are making a small fortune out of fining tourists. Read more

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Speedy Notification

August 19, 2008 · Filed Under Speeding fines · 2 Comments 

For motorists and motorcyclists unfamiliar with Italian roads, speed limits, and speed cameras, devices like these may help ensure that an unexpected speeding fine does not drop through your letterbox at sometime after your trip round Italy.

I was as our local electronics store today in order to change a portable DVD that had given up the ghost, and while I was there, I noticed an interesting and, apparently legal, device for sale.

Having recently written about Italian speed cameras, and other speed trap systems, I thought it might help you, my readers, to know about these clever little fistfuls of GPS based technology. Read more

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Speed Cameras in Italy

August 2, 2008 · Filed Under Italy · 14 Comments 

If you are coming to Italy on your holidays this summer, then watch your speed, otherwise you will end up on camera, and this particular snapshot will result in a fine that will drop through your letterbox at some time in the future.

The term for speed camera in Italy is ‘autovelox‘, and the Italian police use both fixed and mobile speed cameras to check that you are staying within the limits.

To help those of you watch your speed, here are some photographs of some of the types of speed camera you will see around Italy. Read more

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