Driving in Lugo

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The short answer for Lugo

Lugo has one driving restriction on our books: the Limitazioni alla circolazione nel centro abitato di Lugo (RA) — misure… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. Petrol cars of Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 are banned — "veicoli alimentati a benzina EURO 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2, non conformi alla direttiva 98/69/A CE e successive o alla direttiva 99/96/A CE e successive" — so a petrol car needs to be Euro 3 or better. Bi-fuel vehicles running on LPG/petrol or methane/petrol are treated identically and banned up to and including Euro 2. Mopeds are banned up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2013/60/EC or later, and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2003/77/EC or later. 🔑 None of these four lines moves anywhere in the scheme. They are caught at Euro 2 on a weekday, on every ecological Sunday and while the emergency measures are running alike, and the three lists are word-for-word the same on these four indents. It is only the diesel line that moves.
Diesel. Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 from Monday to Friday — "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3 ed EURO 4 non conformi alla direttiva 2005/55/CE B2 e successive o alla direttiva 99/96 fase III oppure Riga B2 o C e successive" — so a diesel needs to be Euro 5 or better on a weekday. 🚨 On every Sunday of the season the line moves one class further and Euro 5 is banned as well: point 1.2 lists "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3, EURO 4 ed EURO 5 non conformi al regolamento 715/2007*692/2008 (Euro 6 A o Euro 6 B)". So a Euro 5 diesel is legal here on a Tuesday and banned every Sunday from 1 October to 31 March, and only a Euro 6 diesel is clear of every list. The emergency list at point 6.1 repeats the Sunday line word for word, so a red bulletin extends the Euro 5 ban to whatever weekday it falls on. ⚠️ Unlike Castenaso's order, this one carries no separate LPG/diesel or methane/diesel indent in any of its three lists; the dual-fuel lines it does carry are the petrol ones. Nothing should be read into that beyond what is written — the order lists what it lists. ⚠️ A reader who has seen that Italian national law set a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026 should note that it does not reach Lugo as a structural rule: Emilia-Romagna dispensed with the structural limitation by DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026, which this order cites in its preamble and whose compensating measures — including the widened 08:00–19:00 emergency window — this order then implements. Euro 5 is caught here by the calendar and by the bulletin, not by a structural rule.

Sources last read on 2026-09-30, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-30.

The schemes, one by one

• Limitazioni alla circolazione nel centro abitato di Lugo (RA) — misure… Low emission zone

  Lugo closes a compact block of its town centre to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, and it runs three different rules over that one area.

  Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, the ban catches petrol cars up to and including Euro 2, LPG/petrol and methane/petrol up to and including Euro 2, diesel cars up to and including Euro 4, and mopeds and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2. On every Sunday of the season — the order says "tutte le domeniche", not a list of dates — the window widens to 08:00–19:00 and diesel reaches Euro 5.

  When Arpae's bulletin turns red for the province of Ravenna the same 08:00–19:00 window and the same Euro 5 diesel line apply on any day of the week. Nothing is on sale: there is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation. 🚨 The order prints NO fine for driving in.

  It cites article 7 paragraph 13-bis of the Highway Code and stops, so no figure is given here and none has been borrowed from a neighbour. 🔑 This is the first comune of the Unione dei Comuni della Bassa Romagna to reach this corpus from Arpae's OVER-30,000 register rather than the under-30,000 one, and its own preamble says why: 32,403 residents at 31 December 2025.

  The union membership is not inferred from the name — OSM containment on the anchor returns the same level-7 area, area/3608848371, that Alfonsine and Bagnacavallo returned, and the order carries the same union officer's favourable opinion, dott.ssa Alice Dosi.

  Its second annex is byte-identical to theirs. ⚠️ And the register a comune sits on turns out to change what it publishes, not merely where: Alfonsine and Bagnacavallo have no ecological Sunday at all and no emergency vehicle rule; Lugo has both. A reader who generalised from the two small neighbours would miss a Sunday ban that catches Euro 5 diesel. ⚠️ Move-In will not carry you through everything here.

  The exemption list is attached to point 1, which contains the Sunday rule as well as the weekday one — but the Move-In line is expressly granted "come disposto dall'ordinanza n. 30/25 del 26/09/2025", and this order's own preamble recites that that earlier ordinance disapplies Move-In on ecological Sundays and while emergency limits are running.

  The two readings do not agree and the driver should take the narrower one.

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