On the ‘dispute’ between speed cameras and motorcyclists we must point out some important updates, which have revealed a shocking truth.
With the arrival of the month of June, in fact, the summer of 2024 has begun. With the arrival of the beautiful season, therefore, it is time for the motorcyclists to carry out both the classic ‘trips out of town’ and to go on holiday. This is the ideal time, in fact, to go riding on your respective motorbikes to combine two aspects of life that most people love: visiting new places and riding your motorbike.
However, as with all things in life, there are downsides to going to certain places: from the traffic, even if motorcyclists still manage to get around it, to the Speed Cameras. The latter, in fact, are among the worst ‘enemies’ of motorcyclists, and not only. Although some things need to be noted on this topic important updates.
On the so-called ‘wild speed camera’, in fact, there is a very important slowdown to be noted. All this happened thanks tonew speed camera decree’, which was published a few days in the Official Journal. With this act, in fact, the Meloni government wants to stop both the installation of new devices and the indiscriminate rush to fine motorcyclists and motorists. However, in addition to this decision taken by the majority, there is also a ‘important truth‘, that is, that the fines received from speed cameras are not of much use to the various people Common to make cash.
Fines, most of the millions of euros are intended for road maintenance
From what can be seen from the analysis carried out by the ASAPS Research Office and the Lorenzo Guarneri Association, in fact, that among the proceeds deriving from the fines paid in 2023 only 11% of the 583 million euros collected (+6% compared to those collected from fines imposed in 2022) from the 14 cities of our country that have more than 200 thousand inhabitants comes from Speed Cameras.
Furthermore, this figure drops even more if it is studied in the cities of Southor only the 6%. Just think that a Naples speed camera fines worth 8.2 euros were paid for each inhabitant of the Neapolitan capital. While every citizen of Florence he had to pay 124.8 euros. The Italian average, however, is 62.4 euros.
What further increases the indignation of the majority of the population is the destination of the money from the various fines. Most of the important total of money collected from the various fines, i.e. approximately 138 million, is intended for road maintenance (97 million euros) andpublic lighting (i.e. approximately 41 million euros).
