A city adapted to people, at almost pedestrian speed, with less rush for cars and greater safety for those on foot. A city at 30 km / h.
30 km / h over a large part of Bologna. By resolution of the city council, the guidelines for the implementation of a plan called “Bologna City 30“Aimed at improving road safety.
Bologna thus joins several large cities that have decided to significantly reduce the speed limits within the city for minimize the risk of accidents.
The first city in Italy at 30 km / h
From June 2023 Bologna will become a city 30. It will be the first major city in our country to introduce a speed limit of 30 km / h on most roads. It is therefore not just the historic center, but the entire municipality. There will obviously be exceptions. On some roads the limit will be 50 km / h.
Also, in the absence of pedestrian-only sidewalks or streets, a speed limit of 10 km / h in special residential areas with priority reserved for pedestrians on the entire carriageway.
They will be invested 14 million euros to “redesign” the roads through the gradual diffusion of physical interventions to adapt road signs and reduce traffic and speed (bumps, raised crossings, road markings, etc.) and optimization of parking spaces. New speed cameras will also be installed. And clearly, a proper communication campaign is in place.
The municipality stresses that the minimization of accidents is a big goal of the SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan). With the “Bologna City 30” Plan, the Municipality will implement a series of actions not only to increase road safety, but also to promote sustainable mobility and improve the quality of the environment and public spaces.
A novelty that is not new in Europe
Also ParisMonday August 30, 2021 at the stroke of midnight, it became a city 30. Since then, the entire French city has become a single “Zone 30” and the speed limit for cars and motorcycles has been reduced to 30 kilometers per hour.
On the other hand, 263 cities in Germany they recently collectively asked for speed zones of 30 km / h. Currently, German municipalities cannot issue their own laws on maximum road speeds if they are below certain thresholds.
Last year, the German cities which promoted initiatives in favor of the rights of the larger municipalities to set speed limits were Augsburg, Aachen, Hanover, Freiburg, Münster, Leipzig and Ulm.
Germany also has a motorway, famous for being one of the few public roads in the world without the usual speed limits for cars and motorcycles. Most of the speedless routes are located outside the more heavily populated areas. An example is the Bundesautobahn 8Also known as A8between Stuttgart and Munich.
