Milan boasts long experience
of public transport: its first street cars date back to 1841, its first subway line to 1964. Today,
the wide assortment of trams, buses, trolley-buses and the four lines
of the subway makes it easy to get to almost every corner of town.
The
Fiera
Milano City, for instance, is on the red subway line 1 (direction
Rho Fiera, Lotto stop).
.:. Tickets
(
Euro 2.20 for most of the city territory
are not on sale on vehicles: you can buy them at most newsstands and
in some bars, or from ticket vending machines in subway stations.
Outside the city limits
prices increase, according to a system based on metropolitan areas.
.:. Information on the
areas in the metropolitan system can be found in a
different webpage.
.:. You can use a ticket for
90 minutes
on as
many trams, buses and subway lines as you like.
.:. Special
daily (24 hours)
and
three-day tickets
are also on
sale.
.:. Public
transport
information is available from the ATM office
in the Duomo subway station as well as in other major subway stations, at the
phone (02 48607607,
every day 7:30am-7:30pm), or at the
ATM official website.
.:. To get a
diagram of the Milan subway, click
here.
.:. Information on the
Passante,
in operation since December 1997, can be found
here.