More rules against the wild use of scooters, but also a ban on smoking while driving, close to smartphones, tablets and devices that take your hands away from the steering wheel, return of the taxi bonus, which can also be used just to go to work at rush hour. For Parliament, the revision of the Highway Code introduced in the Infrastructure decree will also have to pass from here. From Tuesday the Environment and Transport Committees of the Chamber will begin examining the amendments to the text arrived from the parties, which have already indicated their priority proposals. Some, such as the regulation of scooters and rental bicycles, are substantially unanimous, others, such as the raising of speed limits on some motorway sections orfarewell to Roman barrels and Florentine fiaccherai are instead sponsored only by some political forces: the League in the first case, the M5S in the second.
The ban on smoking is also part of the proposals of the 5 Star Movement which calls, among other things, to increase fines for those who use not only radiotelephone equipment, but specifically also "smartphones, laptops, notebooks, tablets and similar devices that even temporarily lead to the removal of the hands from the steering wheel ". The idea is to move to a penalty of between 422 and 1,697 euros (from the current range of 167-661 euros), plus the suspension of the license from 7 days to two months. In the event of a further violation in the course of a two-year period, a maximum fine ranging from 644 to 2,588 euros is proposed and the suspension of the license from one to three months.
Forza Italia instead looks at the obligation of seat belts on board school buses throughout the national territory, while the extension of the validity of the pink sheet to twelve months is linked to the possibility, requested in a bipartisan way, of being able to take the driving test three times and no more two.
The return of the taxi and NCC bonus in the city, introduced in the conversion of the Relaunch decree for people with disabilities or with ascertained pathologies (later enhanced also in the subsequent August decree of last year), would instead concern - in the intentions of practically all sides - also families "most exposed to the economic effects deriving from the epidemiological emergency of the COVID-19 virus, those who" use offline public transport between 7:00 and 10:00 on weekdays, people "who travel by reason of their work or voluntary activity of a health, social and health or social assistance nature, or in the context of education and education, or pregnant women, or all those over 55, or in the context of the vaccination plan ".A generalized enlargement of the audience to which is added the possibility, specified in the amendment, that the vouchers can be used, up to a maximum of 50% of the allocation for each beneficiary Municipality, by mobility managers in relation to travel from home to school and home to work.
For scooters, the parties instead aim to regulate parking lots and to introduce the obligation to have a license plate, third party liability insurance and protection even for adults, with helmets and reflective jackets.
The speed ceiling could drop, based on requests, to 20 kilometers per hour, with the prohibition of using the scooter in two, a widespread practice among tourists and not in large cities, but which would be punished with heavy penalties.
The League also proposes confiscation in the event that the vehicles are modified to increase their performance.
The government has already made it known that, after the series of accidents in many fatal cases in recent months, the issue will certainly be among those addressed in the Commission.