GALLARATE – In recent months «il number of road accidents is constantly increasing”, writes the PD in the question time presented last night, 30 April, in the city council, calling for urgent measures to reverse the trend. To echo him Sonia Serati (+Gallarate), declaring to support the petition promoted by Fiab. But according to the mayor Andrea Cassaniit is a «consideration baseless».
The numbers
The mayor listed the official numbers relating to accidents with injuries or deaths recorded in the city. «We can only find that in 2023 there was the lowest number of claimswith the exception of 2020. Even in 2021 there were more accidents with injuries compared to 2023. And the other fact that I would like to point out to everyone is that in 2015, the year in which the center-left was in government And Giovanni Pignataro was councilor for the Territory, there were 223 accidents with injuries in Gallarate and in 2023 there were 222 accidents with injuries. There were 2 deaths in road accidents in 2015 and in 2023 only one person lost his life. And even the partial of the first 3 months of the year differs very little from that of the previous year. All this despite the fact that they exist more patrols around the city and therefore a greater possibility that our agents encounter these incidents. So if there is a problem now, what was there in 2015? An emergency?”
Roadside checks
According to Cassani, data is used to define indelible contours of what political and media dialectics “can cause to become distortions or problems that are excessively large compared to reality”. And still speaking through data, the mayor underlined that in recent years «there is something that has actually grown and they are called roadside checks: patrols that control speed, inspect vehicles and impose fines more than in the past failure to comply with the Highway Code and this has allowed serious accidents to be limited.”
The fines for violating the highway code in 2023 were approximately 27,300 5,000 more than those high in 2015. “This is called prevention and it is one of the best practices for road safety.”
Speed bumps and school zones
Going into the merits of the question time presented by Pignataro, Cassani said that it is not true that in Gallarate there are no raised crossings (“in fact in via Matteotti in front of the Falcone there is one built by this administration”) and that others will be positioned, given that it has recently been the request for opinion was forwarded to the MIT for the creation of raised pedestrian crossings in streets classified by the current Pgtu as “roads D” and in “urban streets of interdistrict and district E” where there is the presence of passage of local public transport lines and heavy vehicles , as well as being connecting roads for rescue and emergency vehicles. He also recalled some safety interventions carried out in the recent past (in via Monte San Martino the pedestrian crossing with traffic lights on callin via Schuster the narrowing of the entrance to the roundabout to one lanein Via Cantoni the next installation of parking bollards) and announced that in front of schools, as there are different types of roads and dangers, the most suitable solutions will be evaluated individually. «Whereas the parents’ committees like those of the Sciarè elementary schools from the last legislature to those of the school average of Cedrate intend to collaborate with the Municipality for theClose off the area in front of schools during children’s entry and exit times, we are available to evaluate and collaborate. But it is clear that the availability of the parents’ committees is needed, because we do not have enough men on duty to be able to simultaneously place barriers outside around thirty schools (including nursery, elementary and middle schools) to close and reopen the road”.
