The high pressure on central and northern Italy dominates and air quality deteriorates. The smog alert continues to remain high. And cities adopt traffic blocks. To keep the bench is the 'case' Rome, with 8 out of 13 control units that exceed the daily legal limit of Pm10 and where the controversy rages on the stop to diesel up to Euro6. Lock scheduled also for Wednesday and Thursday.
"Thinking about the health of citizens becomes a fault," writes the Rome Transport Councilor Pietro Calabrese on Facebook. In Milan, the new bans start early. "We are in an emergency", says the councilor for Mobility of the Lombard capital, Marco Granelli, who asks the Region to deal with the smog emergency in a structural way. Nineteen days since, in Milan and in the cities of the 'low' region of Lombardy, Legambiente Lombardia underlines "air has begun to breathe continuously with levels of fine dust on average twice that of what European legislation considers tolerable for human health".
Smog from red dot, car stop from the north to Rome
In Turin block mobility until Thursday 16 inclusive with the risk that the red light will turn purple. The alarm continues in Veneto, with the red code also in Treviso after ten consecutive days of exceeding the concentration of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of particles Pm10. The measures contained in the order of the mayor Francesco Rucco were introduced in Vicenza, which introduces the obligation to close the doors of shops and buildings open to the public until further notice. In Florence and in the province, a new ordinance establishes the blocking of the most polluting vehicles until next Saturday. But stopping cars seems not to be enough anymore, Legambiente Lombardia underlines in an open letter to the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala. "To make the measures more effective, we need to deal with the emissions of the current fleet.
If it is true that diesels, especially those of the lower Euro classes, remain the most polluting vehicles among those in circulation, it is also increasingly clear that, in the most recent car models, the most relevant dust emissions are no longer from the exhaust, but derive from wear: brakes, tires, asphalt ". And, environmentalists explain," already five years ago, with the latest update of the Inemar emissions inventory, it was clear how in a city like Milan the contribution of these emissions were equal to those of the exhaust gases. "According to the president of the ACI, Angelo Sticchi Damiani," it is absurd to stop new cars since on the one hand the Euro6 is blocked and on the other hand they incentivize with tax relief the conservation and circulation of 4.2 million cars, 10.77% of the Italian road fleet, who are between 20 and 30 years old. "On the same line, the Unione Petrolifera:" Euro 5 and Euro 6 have emissions well below legal limits ". Mentr and in a tweet the deputy group leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber, Simone Baldelli talks about car crashes as an "act of dubious utility and of certain illiberality: a slap to those honest citizens who, by paying for cars, stamp duty, insurance, parking, permits and excise duties on fuels. "