Ciambetti by bike to Palazzo Ferro Fini in Venice. He breaks out the controversy: “Bad example”
The president of the regional council is discussing the arrival at the office by bicycle, a means of transport prohibited in the historic center. But he replies: “Only summer controversy”
VENICE. “Today in the office by bicycle”, the president of the regional council, Roberto Ciambetti, placed in support of the photo in sportswear and gravel-bike in hand, on the little bridge of Palazzo Ferro Fini: 71 kilometers from Sandrigo (in the province of Vicenza, where he lives the Northern League exponent) in Venice.
Open sky. «President Ciambetti arrives at Palazzo Ferro Fini by bicycle. And he is immortalized against the background of the Basilica della Salute. It seems to me a deliberate outrage to the city “, counter-post Giovanni Andrea Martini, city councilor of the whole city together !,” first of all because there is a specific urban police rule that prohibits traveling around the city by bicycle, even if conducted a hand. And the regulation states, “except those authorized”. President Ciambetti will certainly have been authorized (he would like to know the reasons) ».
“But the men of the institutions should be an example for all citizens. If all citizens, Italians and foreigners, chose to arrive by bike in Venice and drove the bike, by hand throughout the city, they would create very heavy problems for the city, for traveling through the streets, for the safety of residents and visitors. To me, may it be the message you want to give us, this photo hurts. It gives the impression of violence imposed on the city and, in particular, and it hurts even more, in an institutional capacity ».
“I arrived at Palazzo Ferro Fini with private vehicles”, the reply from the president of the regional council Ciambetti. On board the motorboat of the Veneto Region, which shuttles between Piazzale Roma and the Council?
«Yes, a means of service available to the councilors», Ciambetti continues, «certainly one cannot imagine that I have crossed all of Venice with a bicycle in hand, God forbid. A different and completely occasional way to reach Venice – given the low traffic these days – combining business with pleasure. For the rest, just a summer political controversy ». –
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