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Savona. The text of the new Highway Code has been prepared by the government and will soon enter into force. Basically, more controls and more fines, considering that Italy is the country in Europe where they do the most. Everything behind the usual security motivation, even if there are many quirks and dark sides. Let’s examine some of them.
Bicycles can go the wrong way, certainly causing more danger and no more safety. Imagine legalizing what is already happening today on via Dante (the Muretto road) in Alassio: sometimes there is not even room for the intersection between a car and a bicycle running in the opposite direction.
In Alassio the traffic of bicycles in the opposite direction, as we have said, is already tolerated today because – according to the local police – there are no bike lanes in the city. So why isn’t there a racetrack where you can accelerate at a hundred an hour?
The history of bicycles is very fashionable, many times it embraces a false green policy and sometimes it is useless.
We took the (self-proclaimed) bike path from via Stalingradro in Savona, not very useful and in some places very dangerous. Today as today it ends in the town of Legino, with an invitation to continue along via Nizza (!), Taking your bike with you in the underpass located in front of the Carige bank. We challenge anyone to have seen a single rider practice this move.
We believe that bike lanes should be done well and in the right places, such as San Remo, created on the old railway site.
The new Highway Code will then allow the installation of radars and telelasers also in the urban streets of the neighborhood and give more power to the so-called traffic auxiliaries, a kind of traffic police of the series B that cost less but that contribute a lot of money to House.
Already today in Savona – for example – they impose fines in the boxes even outside the blue stripes, according to very controversial rules.
In support of the new code, the Association of Sympathizers and Friends of the Traffic Police was immediately deployed, which has a highly trained and competent president. Yet we wonder why Stradale should have ‘friends and followers’ instead of the postal police (dealing with crimes that are now even more socially dangerous) or the Firefighters’ Helicopter Unit, divers and fire groups. police force dogs, with those good, friendly and very useful animals that dig in the rubble of earthquakes and look for missing people.
The new codes, the new rules, hardly go in favor of the citizen, beyond the motivation (alibi?) Of the security.
For example, there is a law that obliges municipalities to leave a part of the unpaid parking, except in historic centers.
Do you know what happened in many centers, including Savona? That everything has become the ‘historic center’, a definition that can be extended to practically the entire city.
However, we will see how and where the new Highway Code will be applied, hoping that the most important rule does not fail: that of common sense.
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