Milan undertakes the path to become “City 30”. The City Council of the Lombard capital has in fact announced that from 2024 all over the city will be imposed 30km/h limit that the 30 zones already existing on the urban territory will therefore be expanded. To date, only Bologna had decided to embark on this mobility revolution, following the example of several European cities that had set up these limits to safeguard safety. The first results obtained by Paris and Brussels, precursors in this sense, are highlighted by the statistics on road accidents with deaths and serious injuries that have almost halved.
Milan will start in 2024 but in the meantime other cities of the Old Continent are staying launching similar initiatives, such as Graz, Grenoble, Helsinki, Valencia, Zurich, Lille, Bilbao. The choice of the Milanese city will then also be extended to expressway roads, with the possible imposition in some cases of the limit of 50 km/h. Palazzo Marino has clarified that a special fund will be set up, with a budget also dedicated to awareness and communication aimed at citizens. “A collision between a car traveling at 50km/h and a pedestrian or cyclist is almost always fatal to the light road user, and conversely an impact at 30km/h is almost never lethal and offers ample reassurance on the lesser seriousness of the consequences” – explained the councilor Marco Mazzei of the Sala List, first signatory of the Agenda presented by the list of the current mayor of Milan.
They are then reported in the Odg some Aci-Istat data on urban road accidents, emphasizing how 43.9% of the dead and 69.7% of the injured occur in these episodes. To highlight the importance of this initiative then, also the councilor for Mobility of the Municipality Arianna Censi who explained how the choice of the Municipality to reduce the urban speed limit to 30 km/h represents an objective “that we are trying to travel and achieve. It is from here that the culture of a city is built and this already represents the strategy of many European cities”.
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