Speed ​​cameras in the heart of cities, points out – Chronicle

A revolution: theSpeed ​​cameras reaches the heart of city. Fixed stations will watch over the neighborhood and local streets, not just fast-flowing ones, as it has been until now. This is the sensational novelty contained in the Simplifications decree – voted on September 4 in the Senate, it was Friday – a revolution that took place in absolute silence. Giordano Biserni’s Asaps raised the alarm.

Now the text will face the House (with confidence), the final vote is expected the day after tomorrow. We can find the big, unforgiving eye even in areas with a speed limit of 30 per hour. The prefect will authorize the installation, if the accident statistics convince him. Applications submitted in July by Anci de Antonio Decaro were accepted in full.

But he immediately rebels. From consumer associations to traffic and policy engineers. “I am opposed, rather than a system to guarantee security, this seems to me a way to make effective – the engineer Enrico Pagliari, technical manager of Aci dismisses the news -. General and widespread use, just because I suddenly put a certain speed limit on it, without rearranging the road, it becomes a disaster. The main principle is that one signal is not enough. We have proposed dividing the roads into two levels, one for vehicles and one for pedestrians, cyclists, scooters. You cannot make specific interventions “.

And while the parliamentarian of Forza Italia, Simone Baldelli, makes gloomy predictions – “it is a yield to pressure from municipalities who want to earn money. The conditions are being created for the yellow vests in Italy. They were born in France” – the lawyer Valeria Zeppilli from Studio Cataldi foresees risks in management. “It is an important distortion of the law that had to be subject to a more organic reform,” she notes. There is a danger of incorrect installation. Because the fixed location of the speed camera must be clearly seen. If it is easy to do in extra-urban roads, in those towns it becomes much less. In certain narrow streets it seems difficult to install the signs that are needed. Without a doubt it is a novelty that displaces ”.

Anci won across the board. The ‘fuzzy’ veloxes were in the package of proposals presented in July by the association. The delegation to traffic is in the hands of the president, Antonio Decaro, who is also the mayor of Bari. “Allow the municipalities to install speed control devices not only on traffic or suburban roads, but above all on neighborhood streets, near schools, where accidents with pedestrians occur (…): one of these devices on the street it reduces accidents with injuries by 50-60% ”, the text reads.

Luigi Vingiani, national secretary of the confederation of justices of the peace, speaks like a man of law and warns: “Guarantee security, not make money. The spirit of the law must be this.” Remember: “A prefect decree will still be required. And then the system must be approved and calibrated annually. Not only that: as established by the Supreme Court, we must refer to both lanes of travel. Otherwise, the survey may be contested “. Biserni, president of Asaps, the association that immediately understood the scope of the September revolution, emphasizes the holes left by the news. He lists: “We have been waiting years for the repression of mobile phones while driving, the suspension of the driving license for the first offense, promised by all, never came. At stake is the modification of the road homicide law. And then I say, good to strengthen the activity of the assistants who will be able to fine and remove the cars parked near the garbage cans. Surely the urban police cannot reach everywhere. But beware, the professional patrols drop. Who checks mobile phones while driving, alcohol, drugs? Do we plan to do everything with electronics? ”.

In the end, the only happy one is Paolo Sodi, owner of the Florentine company that produces velox: “An important news. No, at the moment I have not received any orders. Maybe.”