Highway code, the Chamber approves and Salvini celebrates. M5s: “Winks at fleximen”

The House of Representatives gave the green light to the bill on the highway code with 163 yes votes, 107 votes against. The text now goes to the Senate for consideration. The first to celebrate was the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini: “It’s a beautiful day because in these very hours Parliament finally approves the new traffic code […]

Green light from the Chamber of the Room to the bill on Traffic Laws with 163 yes, the votes against were 107. The text now goes to the Senate for examination. The first to celebrate was the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini: “It’s a beautiful day because in these very hours Parliament finally approves the new highway code which provides for more checks, more traffic education, more rigor”.

However, the measure was harshly contested by the family members of road victims and the opposition. “It’s natural to ask yourself this,” protested the 5-star hotel Luciano Cantone“how can this need for road safety, much flaunted by Minister Salvini, be reconciled with the possibility for new drivers – that is, one of the categories most affected by road accidents and which therefore affects the daily lives of millions of Italians – of want to drive more powerful cars straight away? You have done even worse with cumulative sanctions by introducing into this code the possibility of having only one penalty for exceeding the speed limit detected by speed cameras within an hour, even if the limit is broken several times. Madness: you are telling the citizen that he can speed and speed with impunity for 50 minutes after the first speed camera fine”. Then he concluded: “I ask you the question again: how can all this be reconciled with the need for road safety that we have in this country, in light of the hundreds of thousands of accidents? The truth is that you don’t care about road safety. You are winking at the various Fleximan and you are carrying forward that culture of transgression, implicitly, with your vulgar propaganda. So don’t address the issue to resolve it seriously, but fill the code with spot measures, which have nothing to do with road safety.”

The Dem also contests the new rules Annalisa Corrado: “The Meloni government,” he declared, “has abandoned the families of the road victims, who had asked to stop the “massacre code” to discuss it again deeply, leaving their cry totally unheard. While many administrations in Italy are working hard and with encouraging results on accessible and safe cities and for sustainable mobility, even without the funds that Minister Salvini should have guaranteed for public transport, the majority in the Chamber has approved a bill that stubbornly looks to the past, imagining car-centric, dangerous and unbreathable cities. An arrogant and very botched law, carried out to the sound of ideology and arrogance, without taking into account the most authoritative technical experiences, consolidated practices, requests “from the territory” of administrators and environmentalist associations”. Protests also from the Renzians: “This provision”, he said Isabella De Monte of IV, “is not suitable for reaching the European objectives of halving road deaths by 2030: our vote was therefore against it, in the hope that the reading in the Senate can bring improvements”.