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Marco Granelli, Milan Safety Councilor heard by the Environment Commission as part of the examination of the Bill on the Reform of the Highway Code.
“We appreciate some changes introduced in the Highway Code, but it is urgent to intervene, in particular on the issue of the approval of speed cameras, the regulation of parking in urban areas and cycle lanes”. He stated it Marco GranelliCouncilor for Safety and Civil Protection of the Municipality of Milan, representing the ANCI in a hearing before the Environment Commission of the Senate, as part of the examination of the Bill on the Reform of the Highway Code.
First of all, Granelli hoped for “the immediate resolution of the age-old problem of the approval of speed cameras linked to the failure by the Ministry of Transport to issue a specific regulation for the approval of automatic speed control devices”. This situation is “creating uncertainty and reasons for litigation, most recently following order 10505/2024 of the Court of Cassation”, which notes that speed cameras must be approved in any case. “The ministry had proposed a modification contained in the DDL which, however, the Chamber of Deputies rejected at first reading. As ANCI, we ask that the rule proposed by the ministry itself be reinstated or that the directives needed to approve speed cameras be quickly issued.”
On cycle paths, however, the text of the Code abolished some rules in force since 2020 and which “had allowed Municipalities to create hundreds of kilometers of cycle lanes even with signs”. All this “had made it possible to immediately provide better protection compared to the total absence of protected routes, to be improved later with structural interventions”. Hence Anci’s request to leave the rules unchanged, “safeguarding the investments made in recent years, also with the use of ministerial resources”.
Finally, the issue of regulated parking which the DDL being examined by the Senate envisages to intervene on parking tariffs which we consider to be a matter extraneous to the Highway Code as well as difficult to implement considering the provision of a decree from the Ministry of Transport which should establish valid tariffs throughout the national territory. “Given that the panorama of municipalities is extremely diversified, we believe it is more appropriate to provide national guidelines which are homogeneous but which at the same time respect the autonomy and specificity of individual municipalities”, concluded Granelli.
