mobility and social equity: the role of public transport Mobility is an essential component of life, increasingly perceived as an essential right for expanding the possibilities and opportunities for economic and cultural growth.
Every day 15 million people who use bus, subway, trams and trains. The country is still highly rated but the use of private vehicles, which remains the preferred mode of transport despite the high cost (roughly four times higher than public transport) and the ever decreasing effectiveness in terms of cost-benefit (cost of living exercise , increased congestion, parking problems, accidents, etc.)..
Recent research shows, moreover, as a large proportion of motorists would use the means public whether they respond to their needs. Many are also those who have no alternatives to the car because they live in areas where the new development was not expected in due course, the mobility plan adequately.
policies regarding mobility must, however, take into account all the consequences that the choices made in this field will have on citizens, with the objective of optimum use of economic resources available.
The transformation of the current modes of production and consumption patterns that sighting to a more equitable society requires transparency in their induced costs on society, particularly the external ones.
External costs fall on society and are not supported by those who created them.
For example, the social costs due to accidents (5000 deaths per year in Italy), disability, disease, pollution (8000 deaths per year in Italy, the source WHO), are quantified in 2% of GDP per year, and this sum If saved on the chapters of health care spending would be more than sufficient to provide the country's collective transportation safe and efficient.
Unfortunately, instead of treating the cause is often preferred to mitigate the adverse effects caused by the mobility model (based on the use of private cars), getting poor results.
Undoubtedly there is a cultural problem, as we have over the years is conveyed and set through a hype, a false idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom and modernity of the style of life based on the car.
This model artificially imposed by marketing from years gone by the economic boom, however, is increasingly showing its limits and proof of this are the increasingly massive doses of advertising for the sale of cars that are being administered daily, compared now a structural decline in sales (-18.89% in October in Italy, the strongest decline in 12 years today).
begins to take hold, however, the idea that a desirable way of life not automatically lead to the possession of ever bigger and more powerful cars, which have available only in the streets free spot, but rather the adoption of those transport systems that meet our needs in the shortest possible time and with the least possible cost to the environment and health, as well as for our pockets.
Adopt a lifestyle alternative to the automobile-centric means, for example, accompany their children to school on foot, and having the opportunity to talk to them without being distracted from driving, or spend less time in queues as long as you have available forms of travel as fast as the metro and trams fast, you can safely use the bike and fill the space occupied by the public for play and social life.
The mobility of the future will increasingly be made of flexible solutions, tailored to the needs of the moment, that avoid the inu-tile land consumption of a system based on car ownership that are still in the parking lot for 90% of the time. In Milan
cars occupy a space equal to 2,250 football fields. We're second only to the U.S. for no self, that is 600 per thousand inhabitants.
Surprisingly, however, one of the urban areas with the lowest rate of mo-authorization of the world is Manhattan: 13 cars per 100 inhabitants. As if to say that high incomes do not necessarily correspond to a high level of motorization, quite the contrary. The New York City Mayor Bloomberg often goes to work by subway. The challenge is
in 'a new policy of mobility demystify the use of private vehicles as a symbol of freedom, since, particularly in major urban concentrations and the excessive use of the car door will always bring more to the paralysis of mobility.
should switch from monoculture to multi-car you how, using an intelligent mix of media available to us, but not necessarily ownership. The car-sharing that is developing successfully in Genoa is a good example.
To do this we must have the courage to go against the stereotypes on behaviors and patterns that have now crystallized done their time to ask policy to make choices really innovative, able to outline a model of development different and better, this, yes, modern and forward a sustainable future and be able to open a phase of real and substantial economic development.
The PD should I believe and strongly committed to pursue these goals with courage and determination, not afraid to challenge old stereotypes not to disappoint one or another category.
A clear choice would be, for example, say that the yellow lane for buses are necessary for increasing the speed of commercial vehicles will reduce costs and therefore reduces the need for cuts to the service. Another choice would be clear, for example, say you can do for pedestrians and bicycle lanes instead of parking for cars. Clear messages that can make people understand what the PD wants to make concrete.
So how many times it happened, the initial distrust of the change can be transformed into sharing and appreciation if the proposals are based on an analysis of reality and are therefore carefully implemented consistently and effectively, bringing tangible improvements in people's lives.
In Varese, during the last National Assembly was discussed and approved an important document on mobility, with clear proposals on which we should, I believe, call the local authorities to undertake immediately:
• Giving local authorities the resources necessary to set a serious mobility policy;
rate financing the renewal of the fleet to ensure more reliability, comfort and less pollution.
invest as network and technology to make concrete the High Capacity, so as to increase the frequency of trains and to ensure a better service, by making the best tracks that will be vacated by aviation.
· Encourage the entry of private Italian and foreign initiatives and partnership or merger between operators and rail car.
· Expanding the area of \u200b\u200bexpertise that provide the service TPL integrated to improve economies of scale of companies and have always in the context of market competition, greater efficiency and economy.
· Extend regional integrated ticketing system, allowing passengers to use different means of transport in the region with the same ticket.
· Encourage user involvement in the organization of the service of TPL.
At the regional level I think is also important that as soon as possible outlining the Regional Transport Plan and take away as the body of the Regional policy and coordination for all companies operating in the field of mobility.
on these points I ask the Democratic Party of Liguria is a serious and concrete design and programmatic commitment.
