HEALTH Some thoughts on limiting the traffic to reduce the density of fine particles PM10 air in the city of Ancona.
The idea of \u200b\u200breducing the density of fine particles with the limitation of self is an instrument passed, if not accompanied by a widespread development of sustainable mobility at all levels.
Unfortunately for urban cyclists, pedestrians large and small every day face the urban jungle, the instrument of limiting traffic is useless for several reasons.
must be considered a problem in the city of Ancona on the structural and cultural urban mobility which puts the 'urgent need to redesign the transportation system, first trying to drastically reduce the travel on four wheels, encouraging the use of bicycles and public transport in the city, building a synergy with all the socio economic.
Today it is necessary to intervene with information campaigns and incentives to protect the public good that is the main health, a good that must remain out of the business logic and profit. To develop
These priorities need to rethink the structure of the city: it is folly to continue to build parking lots for cars in the center, it lifts the economic conditions of a city deeply affected by the crisis, even the sinking in an increasingly deleterious sports public health crises.
primary surgery to marry sustainable mobility is to create adequate facilities for those who choose to move responsibly, one out of all the cycle paths linked together in a way that those who want to use the bicycle to move safely in the city.
Building parking if you do not need to waste public money and improve the parking existing outside the major transport links with buses and shuttles, or proposing the 'alternative of bike sharing is a better and certainly more environmentally friendly. ZTL zones should be established 30 and in neighborhoods where the higher the pedestrian crossing, particularly in the area of \u200b\u200bPiazza Ugo Bassi and arches, the fundamental signs should be improved, as the whole system of traffic light synchronization avoiding biblical times to wait for cyclists and pedestrians. Moving
responsibly in the city must become a priority for all citizens, which is widespread in all its forms, creating infrastructure and promoting awareness campaigns in the 'immediacy, especially in light of recent reports on the quality of 'air that we breathe in our city. With the hope that these initial limitations on the city traffic is the starting point for serious thinking and decisive in order to protect the fundamental right of all, the right to health.
