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IF I WAS A MAYOR I WOULD ELIMINATE NO PARKING FINES

Dear editor,
I am writing to you to put a question which many people would ask every time they are fined. Some time ago I parked my old light motorcycle beside racks, for bicycles only, installed by local authorities in Garibaldi square. When I came back I found a surprise of 117.500 liras. The exorbitant fine was ironically put on my fabulous motorcycle, which I paid just 250.000 liras a year ago. I immediately thought: "But what did I do, what kind of highway code law did I break?". Perhaps my first thought was slightly different!. To call my infringement serious was impossible to me. I thought about people that cross with red light, that do not observe the right of way, that go on hard shoulder along town ring and I thought to their attendant fines. For example I think that to cross with red light is fined with no more than 200.000 liras, not much more than the fine of my "serious infringement". Then this conclusion came to me: there is something wrong. There is a message in these fines: "Cross with red light on Saturday evening if you wish, but be careful not to park light motorcycle on the pavement beside bicycle racks". Lawmaker had an other aim, that is to educate people to move in town with private means of transport; "to cross with red light is more serious, is much more serious than to park into a no parking area". This does not mean to give fines of 10.000.000 liras to people who cross with red light. But it seems that local authorities' main goal and educational aim are to teach Parma people to park well, as if this could make traffic less dangerous. I read in your newspaper that no parking fines are the penalty city policemen impose most often. If you considered the thing from a different point of view (filling the coffers, taking an easy walk to town center, hitting a few people in an expensive way, to preserve art and culture), everything, no doubt, could be clearer and more understandable. I am sure our politicians have been thinking very seriously about the educational aim to teach people how to move in the streets! I am sure that if we read statistics, we would find out the biggest number of car accidents is caused by cars parked in a bad way and by unattended light motorcycles!!. I wish, anyway, to propose myself as a candidate to Mayor position, by suggesting that fines price should be linked to car accidents causes. I will imposed the biggest fine to the infringement, which determines the most serious car accidents. I will order the local policemen to impose the biggest fines to those people whose behavior causes the most of car accidents and the most serious ones. I will suggest a penalty of 20.000 liras to those people who will park in no parking areas and my slogan will be: "If I become mayor, I will eliminate no parking fines". My point is that kingdom's coffers will be anyway full, but I also think that citizens will be more happy, after reading statistics at the end of the year, which talk about a decrease in car accidents and especially in serious accidents. Vote for me !!!



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