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The rules to drive change: in the text of the bill to convert the simplification decree, approved this week in the Senate, numerous and important changes have been made to the Highway Code. The study office of Asaps, the Association of supporters and friends of the Traffic Police, assures that “this is an authentic mini reform of the Code, with norms that will resolve delicate questions of application of previous measures.”
With numbers in hand, Italy is the country in Europe where fines are imposed (78.5 million a year, or 215,000 a day, speeding and no parking at the top of the list). With the new rules, penalties will be even more frequent.
Speed controls also on the streets of the neighborhood
Big Brother will control us in the form of radars: with the new Code, speed controls can be extended everywhere in urban centers, through fixed locations even on the streets of neighborhoods and premises, where until now they were not allowed . The “threat” that looms over undisciplined motorists is more concrete in the fact that speed cameras are featured in the advanced version of the Telelaser, a tool that at the beginning of its career was the subject of appeals but that the Court of Cassation has been completely cleared by customs.
Bicycles can travel in the wrong direction
To protect cyclists, the new Highway Code provides for the introduction of the “urban bicycle lane” with a single carriageway, protected by piers and paved sidewalks, with a speed limit not exceeding 30 kilometers per hour, defined by special signs vertical and horizontal. with priority for bicycles. The bikes will then be able to go the wrong direction on all city roads (not just the aforementioned “bike lanes”) along which the maximum speed limit is less than or equal to 30 kilometers per hour.
Powers increase auxiliary. No parking at the attractions
There will be many more fines for parking prohibitions because the so-called “parking verifiers and assistants” will have greater sanction powers: these hybrid figures, who are not traffic police, but to whom the Municipalities attribute a sanctioning power that should only belong to the police, They are often seen challenging fines, even on the basis of objections, but the new Highway Code clarifies their powers and expands them. Greater control over car parking is essential to enforce bicycle and cycle lane protection measures.
“School areas” become restricted or prohibited traffic
For the purpose of circulation, “school areas” are created: in the vicinity of schools, special protection for pedestrians and the environment is guaranteed. In school areas, the circulation, parking or detention of all or some categories of vehicles will be limited or excluded, at the times and in the manner determined by the mayor’s order. Obviously, buses, school buses and cars for the disabled will be exempt from the prohibitions. The penalties against offenders are very harsh: fines of up to 664 euros and in case of repeated suspension of the license from 15 to 30 days.
