"It is necessary to increase the urban soft and sustainable mobility and reorganise the city's timetables focussing on the mobility manager, a figure that is becoming more and more important in all companies and in schools, as provided for in Art. 229 of the Recovery Decree. The government has to adopt the decrees to implement the regulatory provision as soon as possible".

This was said by the CNEL President Tiziano Treu during the works of the National Board for Road Safety and Sustainable Mobility, that was carried out in person and in videoconference. On this occasion, Marco Granelli, councillor for the Municipality of Milan and coordinator of the ANCI (National Association of Italian municipalities) councillors for sustainable mobility has been heard. "We have to overcome the emergency phase and shape the changes to be ready for the recovery in September, favouring soft mobility and making it safe and convenient for everyone, pedestrians, bikes, push scooters, motorbikes and cars. Starting from the push scooters, it's necessary to find an adequate and organic regulation for driving them, and suitable identification modes with all the linked law obligations, establishing an enrolment in a public register. All this cannot exclude the existence of equipped cycling paths", added CNEL Councillor Gian Paolo Gualaccini, coordinator of the Board. "Public transport has to remain the backbone of urban mobility to contrast traffic and pollution in the city. To achieve this goal, we have to make it possible for the companies and municipalities to receive more resources in addition to those already established in the Recovery Decree. This can be done by increasing the funds for the lost revenue of public transport: at the moment 500 million are available, we had asked for a thousand: more funds are needed", stressed the councillor Granelli, hoping for a "rapid release of the decree implementing the Recovery Decree, already approved by the Unified Conference, a step that would allow the disbursement of the funds already allocated to the local public transport companies and to the municipal administrations". During his speech, the coordinator of the ANCI's councillors for sustainable mobility, talked about the current distancing norms and their impact on the local transport system. "It's appropriate to preserve the obligation of the masks, to have the means of public transport sanitised and hygienic liquid dispensers. We need common guidelines, as there are for the school transport system. As members of coordination of the councillors we ask to simplify some passages of the Traffic Code, to allow the Municipalities to be able to build more and more cycle paths in safe conditions" concluded Granelli. During the works, the Board has approved a Alcolock bill (device that inhibits the ignition of the vehicle following the detection of an alcohol level by the driver, higher than the limits allowed by law), addressed to the subjects who have already been convicted of the crime of drunk driving. The text now will pass to the CNEL Assembly for final approval.