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ROME. A barrage of fines on motorists. In the text of the bill to convert the “simplification” decree approved this week in the Senate, numerous changes have been made to the Highway Code. “A true” mini-reform “of the Code – writes the study office of Asaps, Association of Sympathizers and Friends of the Traffic Police – with rules that will resolve delicate issues of application of previous regulatory measures, also with international repercussions, particularly for border workers driving foreign license plates like San Marino, Switzerland, driven by residents of Italy for more than a year, who were detained by the 2018 security package reform. “
The main novelty is the inflection point in speed controls in urban centers, with fixed radars even in urban neighborhoods and local roads, which are now banned. The Prefect will authorize the new stations, “through an analysis of the accidents that have occurred and their causes, also to protect pedestrians and vulnerable users.” A cyclist protection package “foresees the implementation of a single-lane” urban bicycle lane “, with paved platforms and sidewalks, with a speed limit not exceeding 30 km / h, defined by special vertical and horizontal signs, with priority for Bicycles “. And again: the novelty of the “bi-directional cycle” on city streets, where the maximum speed limit is less than or equal to 30 km / h “.
Among the novelties, there is also the green light for the circulation of three-wheeled scooters on the motorway and “new powers for verifiers and parking assistants, who will have greater sanctioning powers in parking bans”.
Many of the proposals have their origin in Italian municipalities, committed to tackling new mobility at the time of the pandemic, also with regard to “soft mobility”, with historic measures to protect cyclists and pedestrians.
