Milan, on a scooter without rules: 136 accidents in 108 days



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How to make up your scooter: just Google the practical tutorials that will teach you how to double your speed from 25 to 50 km / h. How to steal a scooter: forget about the bicycle thieves of De Sica, the little neorealist Bruno who tearfully took his unemployed dad by the hand, in Bolzano they caught one who loaded the electric tablets into a van and resells them immediately online . How to crash a scooter: you have many options to choose from, a national average of two accidents per day, Teen night contests on state highways around Rome, a poor Pakistani who at Lake Iseo managed to make a front with a bicycle. How to rethink the scooter: What I see – says the mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala – are behaviors that are anything but exemplary, from going in two to walking in the opposite direction. Go up to drive on the sidewalk. Before increasing the fleet in circulation, I want to see a clear improvement in the way of use …

Metropolitan guerrilla warfare

Scooter diaries are already a best seller of the Milan metropolitan guerrilla. Until the rotary always. Yesterday’s transport revolution caused two more injuries, sooner or later you risk dying, and now everyone is pressing: Discipline use is a must! (pd Borghetti); situation out of control! (the Comazzi force worker); You had to think about it first! (North League player Grimoldi) … Mayor Sala promises to suspend shared licenses, but also to attack his green options and the savannah bike lanes, which are lacking in the worst cities in the world (Emilio Boccalini, leader taxi drivers). Give it to the rider: silent and dangerous, feet facing each other like the acrobat who in the 70s walked on a rope suspended between the Twin Towers (copyright Massimo Mantellini), the new Urban Cowboy in the traffic rodeo. A fine every 24 hours for disrespected stops and overgrown sidewalks, including a guy who slalomed in Milan’s cathedral cemetery. Unsustainable sustainable mobility, especially on roads the size of a car and with a Highway Code that still calls them speed boosters and in theory, much in theory, would not allow scooters to circulate on the street (Article 190, paragraph 8) , n on sidewalks (paragraph 9) and not even on cycle paths (paragraph 1). You wonder where they can go, smiles Francesco Guadalupi in front of Alfie, a delegate company hired in Milan to educate (like this) motorcyclists: For now we have seven educators around, people over 30 because at least they respect them more. of the kids. We have already arrested 400 people who misused the scooter. We can not fine them, to explain what not to do. Educators of the revolution … But don’t they send you to that country? I assure you not.

Drowning in the Navigli

Knocked down without posts, broken on cobblestones, drowned in canals. Loved by the grilled Toninelli as much as hated by the Northern League player Salvini. Scooters are now what the Ciaos were in the 70s, mountain biking in the 80s, the Segway in the 90s, rollers and water and the pedaling assistant in the last twenty years.. In London, during the pandemic, sales of stand-up bikes increased by 230%. In Naples, the new shared service sold 22,000 trips in one week. In Bergamo they rent more than 500 per night, when public transport does not work. Driven by government bonuses, shunned by pedestrians and motorists, scooter drivers ride free and beautiful: no license, no license plates, no helmet, no belt, no insurance, no age obligation … facilitate: only in Milan, 136 accidents in 108 days. Arousing the curiosity of the Prosecutor’s Office, which wants to see clearly in the business of 6 thousand scooters and the seven Italian, German and Chinese companies that monopolize the share. Annoying tweeters like Luca Bizzarri: But this thing – writes the actor – that every three meters there is a skateboard in the middle of the pavement and every three seconds there is someone who is whizzing by with the skateboard at one meter and every three hours you see someone who is colliding with the scooter, is this thing here beautiful? Is that the future?

Between the tables

It does not impress Giovanni Storti too much of the trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo: on Wednesday I was also eating outdoors in the Bastioni – he says – and a scooter passed quickly between the tables. Clearly, he took the insults. However, I don’t think the problem is with the scooters: they are uncivilized people, those who park their cars on the tracks, ride their bikes on the sidewalks or, in fact, modify the speed of the scooter. A great cyclist, Giovanni doesn’t like the new bike very much: for people younger than me. But it makes me laugh that now they want to limit it: like when they close the school cafeteria because two families do not pay, or remove the benches because the homeless people go to bed. What a fool. If there are those who violate the rules on a scooter, pay fines. But Milan is a flat city, the climate is less cold: let it go on two wheels! …. There is a Lombard councilor, De Corato, who keeps track of all accidents, infractions, congestion caused by green vehicles … But have you ever noticed how many people die from cars?

September 17, 2020 (change September 18, 2020 | 08:44)

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