"President, pause the rewriting of the highway code and rewrite it with us."
This is what some family members of road victims ask in a video addressed to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
"Michele was training for the Giro d'Italia, he was killed on the road by a man driving a van" is the testimony of one of the three protagonists of the video, brother of a cyclist hit in Milan, who invites you to write to government.
THE VIDEO APPEAL OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS
"We ask you - we read in the email - to suspend the approval of the New Highway Code and to meet the associations of the families of the victims on the road to rewrite it together with them and with those - with them and for them, starting from civil society - is mobilizing to ask for more safety on the roads. The current bill under consideration by Parliament, in fact, contains many, too many articles that manifestly go against all scientific evidence on road safety, relaxing rules and controls on high speed and motorized traffic, restricting the rights and safety spaces for the most vulnerable users, taking away the ability of any municipal administration to intervene and in general not intervening systematically on the primary causes of road accidents based on Istat data".
"Making choices that protect the lives and safety of people on the roads is a duty that goes beyond the legitimate political choices of those who govern", they conclude.
The video and the email are part of #Cittàdellepersone, an initiative started by Cittadini per l'Aria Onlus, Sai che visto?, FIAB Milano Ciclobby Onlus, Parents Antismog ETS with Clean Cities Campaign.
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Tuesday exam and final vote on the Highway Code reform
The examination of the bill to reform the Highway Code began yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies.
The numerous amendments presented to the text are being voted on.
The session will resume on Tuesday from 1pm to 6pm to arrive at the final vote that day.
"Road safety is too serious and precious an issue to turn it into an electoral campaign brawl: the MIT has developed the new code, intervening on rules that have been stuck for decades, introducing important innovations such as the alcohol lock and restrictions for those driving with a mobile phone or under the influence of drugs", say MIT sources, responding to the controversy over the highway code in recent days.
"The alarming data on too many accidents refer to the current rules and which the centre-left, in government for the last decade and with important personalities also at the MIT, has never changed. And it is surprising - underlines the ministry - the request for greater listening , given that the new Code is the result of a close discussion with associations, experts, journalists, even influencers, as well as close discussions with other ministries such as Interior and Education. Elly Schlein did not see them arrive, but hundreds of pages of observations and proposals. The hope is that we will move from words to deeds, with the approval of the new code by Parliament. The center-left will not go the wrong way."
Schlein: "We will fight in the Chamber and in the square"
"We have presented 240 amendments in the chamber, we will continue to fight. The associations have held 40 demonstrations this week alone, their mobilization will continue and we will support it again".
The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein said this in a press conference in Montecitorio, in which the PD's position against the changes to the highway code introduced by the Salvini bill was explained.
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