Monday, March 14, 2011

Tangential of Milan is back to 90 km / h

After less than a month after its introduction, the limit of 70 km / h on highways Milan will be abolished. This is confirmed by the Province of Milan, who decided not to extend the emergency measures taken Feb. 10 and entered into force on 21 of the same month. The objective is that local authorities had proposed to reduce the levels of fine particles in the air of Milan hinterland, after the alarm threshold was exceeded for a good 57 days in January and early February, but apparently the extent , which was adopted earlier in several European countries with different results from the experience in Milan, has proved ineffective, so that, starting Wednesday, March 16, will return again to travel the highways with the old limit of 90 km / h .

For the President of the Province of Milan, Guido Podestà, the fault was not the measure per se, but the motorists who did not observe the speed limits reduced: "The prohibition is applied on the highways of the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss adapt They slow down and do not complain.

I wonder, then, because so many motorists on our highways ostinino to flout the rule and should be exposed to the sanctions provided by the highway code. " The question of the President of the Province is partly solved by Legambiente, which identifies the lack of certainty of punishment because of the failure of the operation, who led throughout to 500 offenses recorded by police in the road with telelaser three weeks in which the limit remained in force on the ring operated from Serravalle, a balance to be assessed against a total traffic estimated at about 410,000 vehicles per day on highways.

There was thus a lack of controls at the base of the low impact that the restrictive measure has had on the level of pollution, but not all been in vain, at least in intention. According to the Deputy National Legambiente, Andrea Poggio, "The measure is technically correct, applied systematically in many European cities, but you have to enforce it through.

Having said the Milanese" is the limit, but we will not give penalties, stay calm, "revealed herself a spectacular own goal. So it is a farce, a useless joke." A position clearly not shared by the Province, which is still the voice of Mayor defends himself: "More than I think the sense of civic fines should encourage motorists to contribute to the preservation of health.

Putting a few more minutes to walk along the bypass can not and should not be considered an unacceptable event. " The field is therefore open to interpretations and accusations, divided between those who saw the idea a possible solution to the problem of pollution and those who criticized the effectiveness depends on the speed considered too low to be maintained on this type of road.

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