wetsuits arriving for boats that exceed the speed limits in the lagoon
VENICE – In Venice and in the lagoon, boats and boats that respect the speed limits can be counted on the fingers of one hand, the promised checks are no longer seen around, at least in the hours monitored by us, which are then those in which the traffic is most sustained. Perhaps it is the fear that the work carried out in carrying out checks (inter-forces, they were foreseen but mostly the local police), preparing the minutes and sending the sanctions will be nullified by an appeal in which it is contested that the rules of the highway code they are not applicable to the Venice lagoon.
Velox and telelaser in the Lagoon
Well, all this is destined to end, if the Ministry of Infrastructures will find the time to define a determination, a regulation, an order to implement the day presented to the Chamber by the deputy Nicola Pellicani (Pd) and welcomed by the Government on the sidelines of the vote on the Infrastructure Decree. This document commits the state to install in the lagoon the “velox”as happens on the road, to fine those who speed through the lagoon, but also provides for systems without an inspector such as the new Sisa (Sanctioning system, which does with MoMa, traffic monitoring) installed by the Municipality and already operational at the moment for information purposes only.
The text of the document explains everything and removes all doubts: “the competent bodies may use or install technical traffic control devices or bodies aimed at remotely detecting compliance with speed limits – including those for calculating the average speed on sections determined – provided approved or approved, the presence or direct without the intervention of the agents in charge and also to provide for the document with the protection of photographic systems, video recording or similar devices which, in compliance with the related needs of personal confidentiality, allow to ascertain, even in subsequent times, the methods of carrying out the facts constituting an administrative offense, as well as the identification data “.
MoMa and SiSa, have taken the place of Argos, now dismantled. The new system, such as Venis has launched a European tender, is currently the best that technology can to enable and and perform the task of traffic monitoring (MoMa) and, when possible, will play the role of “policeman” (the SiSa , acronym for Sanctioning System). A system for now limited to the canals of the city but in the future it can be extended at will. The actioning system is not in operation due to the slowdown in the approval process due to a serious lacuna in our legislation: the navigation code does not allow automatic speed sanctions. Here is that the intervention of the Government, stimulated by the Chamber, should be decisive.
“There is no going back – comments Pellicani, who is also leader of the Pd group in the Environment commission – the agenda represents a long-awaited commitment that is finally black and white, written on a parliamentary act from which the Government cannot escape . The Infrastructure Decree also includes other important measures for Venice, in particular in relation to the appointment of the heads of the Authority for the lagoon, renamed the New Water Authority. It also provides – he reminds – the possibility of including the provisional landings for large ships in Chioggia and pending the Morphological Plan, it includes the Port Authority to carry out the necessary interventions to ensure the operation of the port, as well as the maintenance works of the Mose at the inlets ».