Bologna, scooters on preferential roads to streamline traffic

Bologna – After the announcements of recent days, the mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola, now says “what will really be the preferential routes on which we want to allow scooters to pass, because it would be an important solution to streamline traffic, pollution and traffic jams“. In short, it is not just an "advert" by the mayor. This was declared by the group leader of the M5s, Massimo Bugani, speaking in a question time.

Thus, from the opposition benches, another support arrives in Merola on the ground of the new measures to be adopted in terms of mobility. The scooter is a "weak medium" in Bologna, even if it could reduce the use of cars, in the city "it hasn't been facilitated in the slightest for years“, underlines Bugani. The only other means”even more painful"It's the bicycle, adds the five-star group leader, given that most of the cycle paths are only "brushed on the sidewalks“. The other municipal councilor of the M5s, Marco Piazza, meanwhile puts the administration in the crosshairs for the "incredible data” which attest to the boom in sanctions and which “they are transforming Bologna from a city of tortellini, towers and ice cream to a city of fines“. In short, there is a "massacre" underway, says Piazza and if the mayor says that "we will provide more information" on the checks, evidently it should have been done sooner". Piazza, then, shows himself to be particularly understanding towards those who encounter sanctions, at least in some cases. "It is clear that people must be respectful of the prohibitions, but we know well that very often there are promiscuous situations in which one manages to get a fine even without wanting to. There are situations of parking restrictions that are a bit imprecise and not entirely clear, promiscuous preferential lanes where all you have to do is trespass with a wheel and there is a camera that gives you a fine".

In other words, it's not always who gets the fine."he is the classic person who runs a red light, there are also many fines taken unconsciously and in good faith, perhaps repeated." continues Piazza. “Because then there is an extremely long notification time, so one receives around thirty fines and is shocked for the rest of his life“. Finally, the leader of the Northern League Francesca Scarano sends Merola the message that the announced revision of the PGTU "it should have been done in the last term“. And while the mayor is preparing to revolutionize the preferential elections, for Scarano we have to ask ourselves the reasons for a "such a peremptory closure” towards the traders who proposed to turn off Sirius in the summer, “in light of the fact that the city is all a construction site". A request "legitimate and shareable“, underlines the Northern League member, proposing to evaluate the shutdown of Sirius also on Saturdays and from 18pm onwards.