Rome airport transportation: the strike of Rome's taxis

Italian Taxi drivers renewed the strike in the middle of July 2006 after talks over government plans to deregulate the sector ,causing chaos in many cities. The drivers staged various forms of protests, besieging main squares, deliberately snarling traffic, blocking access to several airports and organizing go-slow drives, local media reported. In Rome, the drivers descended on central Piazza Venezia, the city center of Rome, soon after midnight after taxi unions abandoned the negotiating table. They remained there throughout the night and forced local authorities to close the square off to traffic. Some 60 other taxis took part in a go-slow drive from the city's main airport to the city and back again, causing further problems. The protests were replicated in Naples View the rest of this article