The crackdown on speed cameras is coming: a stop to speed detection devices on stretches of road at 50km/h . The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, is ready to launch the decree "for national approval" of speed cameras.
"There can be no DIY", Salvini's words. "To save lives near schools, hospitals, there is a dangerous curve, but placed overnight on roads to tax motorists have little to do with safety", underlined the minister, further adding that the mayors "they will have to explain why they put them and where and with what motivation."
According to what the Lega deputy and member of the Chamber's Transport Commission, Elena Maccanti, explained, "there are two provisions on speed cameras, one is included in the highway code", while that of prohibiting the installation of speed cameras on roads 50km/ h «is in a ministerial decree currently being examined by the Unified Conference, provided for by a 2010 law that Salvini is unblocking after 13 years, and which will pass».
The bill on the reform of the highway code is underway in the Chamber's Transport Committee . Among the amendments approved so far, one concerns a specific provision for speed cameras. "In the event that multiple speed camera fines are received on the same road section, in a period of one hour and under the jurisdiction of the same body, only one fine is paid: the most serious one increased by a third, if more favourable", we read in the provision.
Among other measures, the third band arrives on the guard rails to protect motorcyclists and the restricted traffic zone in areas protected by UNESCO. Government defeated in commission on alcohol lock. "Our amendment which asks the MIT to clarify the type of workshops authorized to install alcohol locks inside cars was approved against the government's wishes", explained the leader of the Democratic Party in the commission, Anthony Barbagallo.
(Unioneonline/vl)