"You don't die at 30 km per hour."
With this slogan the Rete Città 30 took to the streets immediately to say enough to the daily massacre on the roads and to change the reform of the highway code and the directive of the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, on speed limits in the Municipalities.
Legambiente, Fiab-Italian Federation of the Environment and Bicycle, Salvaiciclisti, Kyoto Club, Clean Cities Campaign, ASviS, Amodo, Michele Scarponi Foundation, Lorenzo Guarnieri Association, Marco Pietrobono Foundation, Luigi Guccione Foundation and Vivinstrada protest in Piazza Porta Pia, in front of the ministry, to ask safer, more livable and people-friendly cities.
"The limit of 30 km per hour in urban areas guarantees better mobility - say the associations of the platform - to the advantage of all road users. We say no to a reform of the Highway Code that does not consider speed as the main cause of death on the roads and we say to the City 30 directive proposed by the Minister of Transport", that any 'derogatory limits' to the maximum speed limit of 50km/h are strictly identified and justified street by street.
The associations instead support the Municipalities that have undertaken the transformation towards 30 km per hour from Olbia to Cesena, from Treviso to Bologna to the municipalities of the Teramo coast for over 45 kilometers between Martinsicuro and Silvi.
And they ask Parliament to modify the reform of the highway code unquestionably to defend the autonomy of local administrations in terms of sustainable mobility.
"Speed, distraction and failure to give way to pedestrians are the factors that cause 55% of deaths in urban areas. In our country there is one death every three hours and one injured every 2.5 minutes and in cities 50% of victims are pedestrians and cyclists ", say the organizers of the protest.
Thirty km per hour, they recall, is the speed desired in residential areas by the National Road Safety Plan (Pnrr) Horizon 2030, issued by the Ministry for Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility after consultation with Parliament in 2022, and by the guidelines of the EU Parliament.
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