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 A complex network of over 200 bus lines covers the whole urban and suburban areas of Rome, although the effectiveness of the service is heavily affected by the city's traffic, especially in central districts.
The stops are marked by large rectangular notices with either a yellow or a white background.
All bus lines are indicated by numbers. In recent years, a colour code system has been introduced to describe their features, and ordinary lines are now being changed accordingly.
All bus lines are indicated by numbers and colours. A colour code scheme describes the type of line. All colours but one, (red), also have a matching logo, as shown below, which is featured in the bus stop board:
 | | - RED (old ordinary line) - they are being gradually turned into blue or maroon lines.
- BLUE (linea urbana, "urban line") - they are the standard urban and suburban lines, whose stops do not have a time schedule.
- DEEP GREEN (linea espressa, "express line") - It is a particularly fast service between crucial or distant spots of the city with only a few stops.
- MAROON (linea esatta, "exact line") - they are the only urban daytime lines. They are still few, compared to ordinary lines.
- BLACK (bus notturno, "night bus", marked with a small owl, sometimes also featured on top of the bus stop board) - all night lines are subject to a time schedule, shown below the bus stop. |
How Bus Stop Board Looks Like
Except exact and night lines, all the others do not show their time schedule:
they do set off at given hours, but the heavy traffic would make it very difficult to reach every stop at the right time. However, a great majority of lines have rides ranging from one every 5 mins. to one every 25-30 mins., according to the time (higher frequency at peak hours) and to the districts covered by the line (central neighborhoods, or areas not directly reached by subways are usually better served). Furthermore, often two or more different lines may be taken from the same stop to reach a given spot, so the wait for a bus is never too long. On Sundays buses are scarcer than during the rest of the week. The daytime bus service starts around 5:00 or 5:30 AM, depending on the different lines, and ends around 11:30 PM-0:00, when it switches over to the night service. The hour of the last ordinary ride is usually stated on the board.
Night service lines have a scheduled timetable, shown on the sign's board. Night rides are less frequent than during daytime, about one every 30 minutes. | | 
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