In the draft of the budget law, the funds for cycle paths disappear
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From 1 January 2023, if what is currently reported in the draft budget law is confirmed, there could be zero state funds allocated to cycle paths and bicycles. Almost 100 million euros less spending than in reality should have been allocated, for example, for the construction, construction or maintenance of urban cycling infrastructures. A backward pedaling towards those paths of sustainable mobility necessary to promote another way – based on two wheels – less polluting and more environmentally friendly.
The report
“It’s not a country for bikes”: in Italy we spend 100 times more on cars
by Alessandro Petrone
Even if it has not yet been implemented and officially uploaded on the Chamber’s website in the draft currently being processed, pending the approval of the new budget law, about 94 million (47+47) are missing, which had been included as expenditure for the 2023 and 2024 in the cycling fund established by budget law 160/2019 (art. 1 paragraph 47). In the draft of the 2023 budget law, those funds – the last resources not yet allocated for urban cycling – have however been reabsorbed and could be used for other purposes in the transport sector: for now in detail on “establishment of the fund for the construction of new tracks cyclable” are simply the two amounts of 47 million each with the minus sign in front.
Mobility
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by Valentina Guglielmo
Recently, the report produced by the Clean Cities association denounced how Italy is not currently a country for bikes: in fact, we spend 100 times more on cars and we have just 2.8 kilometers of tracks per inhabitant. Overall, between now and 2030, funding for cycle paths in urban areas should have amounted to 438 million euros which, however, if the draft currently circulating is confirmed, will be reduced by 94 million.
According to Claudio Magliulo, head of the Italy Campaign of Clean Cities, “Italy still has a big cycling gap, as reported in our dossier. To fill it, as we have proposed, another 500 million euros a year should be budgeted for the next 7 years: if instead the proposal of the draft of the 2023 budget law is confirmed, the resources for cycling would even be eliminated.This is unacceptable, given that the bicycle is a key element of the transition towards modern mobility and sustainable”. The hope, for now, is that when it comes to discussion, the text may change and that the almost 100 million destined for cycle paths will not be lost.
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“There is still time to repent – says Magliulo – therefore we hope that in the subsequent versions of the draft budget law that will be discussed in the Chamber there will continue to be the necessary funding for tracks and bicycles. A vital issue for Italian cycling”.
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