TRANSPORT AND ROAD SAFETY PENALIZED abolition of the ICI FIAB RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ROAD SAFETY, EDOARDO Galatolo DECLARES: "Soldiers of the CI bloodied"
Cut to 17.5 million euro at National Road Safety Plan, 377 million Development of local public transport, 241 million to the incentives to move the heavy traffic to the marine transportation. Transport and road safety are among the main sectors most affected by the decree, now before Parliament, on the first house on the cut of the ICI.
The Italian Federation of Friends of the Bicycle protest vigorously. The national coordinator for security FIAB Street, Edward Galatola: says:
"Money ICI are stained with blood! Road safety costs of € 30 billion a year, almost € 500 per person per year. Leaving aside for a moment that the individual dramas given behavior, it is clear that any euro invested in this area pays off immediately. But Italy has the lowest spending per capita in Europe: less than one euro per person per year, compared with more than 25 in Switzerland .
The National Plan for Road Safety, born in Italy to enforce the constraints that impose community to halve the number of road fatalities by 2010, provided an annual budget of at least 600 million. The already inadequate 60 million per year allocated by the Prodi government for three financial, are reduced by one third (-17.5 million) to meet revenue caused by the abolition of the ICI. The investment per capita is thus increased from sixty cents to one euro. In what the current Government also confirms what has been done by the Berlusconi II and III had even cleared funds in financial 2004, 2005 and 2006.
deaths, pollution and poor quality of life are always caused by heavy road traffic and congestion of urban centers. Again the numbers tell us that traffic pollution is costing us about € 90 billion per year (€ 1,500 more per head, baby included). The fact of embezzling substantial resources, as well as road safety to other strategic sectors for the country as the one on the incentives to move the heavy traffic to the marine transportation (-241 million) and development of local public transport (-377 million), for a total of 618 million euro, is an absolutely serious. What statements will be issued at the next road incidentally?
transport efficiency and road safety can be guaranteed only with planning and investment. In Italy in the face of a dead per year for two murders per 100,000 people have died on the job, you are dead by suicide, road accidents and at least ten to as many accidents household.
is clear that the focus is inversely proportional to the seriousness of the problem. FIAB calls on the Government measures consistent.
Lello Sforza
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