The Italians paid fines of 1.535 million euros in one year.
A boom that in 2023 marks a growth of 6.4% compared to the previous year and 23.7% compared to 2019, before the arrival of Covid.
A stroke that also varies from city to city.
In some municipalities, the collections, when compared with the number of inhabitants, record per capita amounts exceeding 100 euros per year.
This is the case in Florence (198.6 euros) where many tourists also pay, but also in Rieti (151.3 euros), Siena (133.5 euros), Potenza (120.7 euros) Milan (108, 1 euro), Padua (103.2 euros).
The impact was calculated by Il Sole 24 Ore which reworked the collection data from the Ministry of Economy's telematic system, with a ranking that actually depends on many factors.
Not only from the greater number of movements, checks or violations committed but also from inflation and the ability to collect quickly.
The geography of fines sees the Center and North in the lead,
being more efficient in collecting: overall it 'accounts' for 84.3% of the total paid.
The collection rate - for example - is 63.7% in
Bologna
which is the city at the center of the controversy over the 30 km per hour limit and which has
81.5 euros in fines per capita
.
The same indicator instead collapses to 14% in
Naples and 12.2% in Palermo.
However, if you look at the increases it is clear that fines are growing rapidly in the smaller municipalities.
Those that do not reach 10 thousand inhabitants collected 238.6 million euros in fines last year, with surges that in four years range around +50% to reach +59.7% in the range between 2 and 5 thousand inhabitants.
What weighs heavily, especially in smaller municipalities, are not the fines for parking restrictions, an obviously marginal phenomenon in smaller towns, but the speed cameras
.
The statistics drawn up by Codacons on the data of the Ministry of the Interior are from a few weeks ago which sees
Italy leading in Europe for the number of detectors along the roads: 11,130 thousand devices compared to 7,700 in Great Britain, 4,700 in Germany , France's 3,780
.
A theme, that of speed cameras, is at the center of attention not only of Fleximan (who knocks them down using the whisk) but also of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
"As a ministry we are committed to limiting the multiplication of do-it-yourself speed cameras everywhere - minister Matteo Salvini intervenes - They are useful in the most at-risk points and roads but they cannot be placed everywhere just to harass workers and motorists".
Of course there are small towns that use speed cameras such as the municipality of Colle Santa Lucia which from the Giau Pass in the Ampezzo Dolomites has collected 747 thousand euros (2,159 euros for each of the 346 inhabitants), although obviously passing tourists are the ones who pay.
But there are also large municipalities, such as
Rome which from the tutor placed under the Giovanni XXIII Gallery has detached 154 thousand violations, compared to the 107 thousand recorded by all other city speed cameras, but has also managed to drastically reduce accidents.
However, in large municipalities the amounts of fines are rather stable, marking a growth of 3.3% between 2019 and 2023 for cities over 250 thousand inhabitants.
Florence is an exception with growth of 85% compared to 2019. Milan and Rome, on the other hand, recorded a decline last year both compared to 2022 and 2019. The decline compared to the two reference years is 11.7 and 19.1% in the capital, and 3.7% and 12.5% in Milan.
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