Is Italy’s transport minister on a ‘crusade’ against cycling?
www.euronews.com
Climate campaigners and bereaved families are urging the government to scrap a ‘backwards’ road code reform.

Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party and transport minister has proposed a reform of the traffic road code.

The reform is focused on increasing penality for the types of collisions that have a large echo in the media, such as when the person responsible was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but in reality it risks increasing the main factor in road mortalities: speed.

In fact the reform will limit mayors’ ability to create new cycle routes or car-free ‘school streets’, or to keep polluting cars out of city centres. It also restrict the possibilities to deploy speed traps.

Campaigners held demonstrations in dozens of Italian cities last week, calling for the reform to be scrapped and re-written in consultation with bereaved families.

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  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    281·
    8 months ago

    Glad the people of Italy and not just rolling over and taking it as Oil and Gas (no doubt behind this) will get their climate destroying ways until we say NO.

    • MolochAlter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      We’re very eager to protest but realistically it’s not his side that’s arguing against it so they can more or less safely ignore the protests until the region and township administrators start actually going against it, which is quite possibly going to happen if this measure is unpopular enough.