They embraced the Fiat 500, the Vespa, even tuk-tuks. But will Romans draw the line at the golf cart?
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‘I have to dodge them all the time’: Rome locals incensed by rise in golf cart toursThey embraced the Fiat 500, the Vespa, even tuk-tuks. But will Romans draw the line at the golf cart?
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Sat, 3 October 2026
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‘I have to dodge them all the time’: Rome locals incensed by rise in golf cart toursAuthorities crack down on trade they says risks spiralling out of control – but operators say they are being targeted unfairly On the edge of Piazza Navona, one of the grandest squares in central Rome, Barry and Linda, visitors from Texas in the US, stepped out of a golf cart. They planned to cross the square on foot, perhaps stopping to admire Lorenzo Bernini’s 17th-century Fountain of the Four Rivers, before being picked up by their driver at the opposite end. The couple had already done a...