Green shield for Florence. And I commute? Two positions in the editorial office
What do you think of the Green Shield proposal around the city of Florence? In other words, the system of telematic doors around the city which should lead to a 50% reduction in the number of citizens entering and exiting, and which also in neighboring municipalities should lead to a 20% reduction in Co2 emissions. Below are some positions in the editorial office:
The position of the Common Property Territories:
The mayor involves the Council and the Municipalities of the metropolitan area to verify the impact of the “green shield” and initiate a coordination table between all the bodies involved. To ask are the metropolitan councilors Lorenzo Falchi and Enrico Carpini in a motion that will be discussed by the assembly of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in the session on Wednesday.
“We see a risk in proceeding swiftly and independently by the Municipality of Florence regarding the green shield project, which should instead be the subject of the broadest coordination between the Municipalities so that measures like this, very important and no longer differentiable, are truly effective and not flags to be planted without considering the impact on citizens and the real effectiveness – explain Falchi and Carpini – We share the assumptions on the basis of which we intend to proceed with the proposal of the shield. However, we do not agree with the way in which it is proposed to implement it, without evaluating the traffic flows from a perspective, accompanying without the provision with strong measures to support LPT – today in dramatic conditions as also recognized by Nardella himself – without involving all the bodies concerned , without considering the consequences for tens and tens of thousands of commuters. On the one hand everything is cyclically rekindled on the Greater Florence, on the other cyclically we continue to act until it ends at the municipal boundaries of Florence. We expect Mayor Nardella together in recent weeks to recompose this rift and start a different path for all the Municipalities “.
Dicomanoche Will Come Group:
Green Shield? “” No thanks “is the opinion of the council group DicomanoCheVerrà (Laura Barlotti, Marcello Certini and Cristina Tucci) on the project of the Mayor of Florence which provides for the introduction in the city of Florence of a restricted access area aimed at prohibiting the passage to more polluting vehicles. “The intention may also be right and understandable” comment Barlotti, Certini and Ticci “but all this cannot materialize in a discriminatory measure against those who do not live in the city of Florence and in particular towards the less well-off categories, considering that Nardella has also expressed its intention to limit access to the city to NON-citizens, introducing a mini-toll tax (we speak of 1.5 euros) for those who do not have electric or non-polluting vehicles. , in a city that counts on a daily traffic of over 250 thousand vehicles, the Municipality of Florence would have had an income of about 15 million euros per year, to be reinves tire, it seems, entirely in public transport. “
“Those who reside outside Florence and who left old cars defined as polluting (ie non-electric)” Laura Barlotti “and this often due to socio-economic reasons, will therefore not be able to enter the city without paying a toll or being subject to a sanction considered that 81 cameras should be installed to control the gates “.
“Such a measure” continues Barlotti “risks tackling the serious problem of air pollution in a simplistic and discriminatory way for citizens. An unfair solution to the citizens of the province of Florence with particular reference to the less well-off categories who will find additional costs to bear expenses or to use public services that are often not functioning “
“Mobility” underlines Laura Barlotti “is a right not for a few but for all, which must be saved and protected. So either we seriously intervene in this sense with the strong and serious public on the transport of investments or otherwise certain measures seem only to create an important media effect and gather consensus within certain “basins” rather than to reduce the. And then why did the Mayor of Florence, Mayor of the Metropolitan City not think of equating the residents of the city of Florence with the inhabitants of all the municipalities of the Metropolitan City? After all, all the citizens who go to Florence every day from the province for work, health, study, leisure, even money in the Florentine territory…. and then the Bilancino reservoir, which is also used by the city of Florence, is it not located in Mugello? ” “We hope to conclude” Barlotti Certini and Ticciche there is a serious comparison of all the municipalities of the metropolitan area with the municipality of Florence “evaluate the possible effects of such a measure” With these reasons, the DicomanocheVerrà Group presented a motion to both the Municipality of Dicomano both to the Union of Municipalities of Mugello (in this case together with the Mugello group in the Municipality)