While public attention focuses – rightly – on feminicides, another tragedy is consumed in silence: 72 dies by bike or scooter in the first five months of the year. An invisible massacre, daughter of a “green” mobility often poorly planned
We could call it as a silent massacre. That for the banality of the dynamic, for its daily life, it does not make news. But not for this it deserves to be snubbed.
Since the beginning of the year 72 people in Italy have lost their lives. If you don’t talk about it, it is because they died aboard a bicycle or a scooter, in general silence. But someone will also have to deal with them: the victims on two wheels. 9 of these died because of the pirates of the road, 11 were aboard a scooter, according to the data of the Sapida-Asps Observatory.
The paradox is that, numbers in hand, the pierce of deaths exceeds, in figures, the other great tragic plague of our society, namely the crimes for femicide. Daily drama that pushes to reflect on the man-woman relationship, and on the perverse roads he can reach. It would be appropriate, however, without wanting to make any type of macabre paragone, that a core of attention was also paid on what happens in the paved roads and in the cycle paths of our cities. 72 died in five months, who often have no name and face in front of the public, would perhaps deserve a more in -depth reflection: on the rationality with which the road traffic is drawn, on the expertise with which bicycles and single -side are conducted, and on how they interact – often with hostility – with the motorist tribe.
The environmental logic that pervades the big cities – Milan among all – prevents us from giving reasoned judgments on “green” mobility (from electric car to sharing to the aforementioned scooter). We can not help but approve and promote, kneeling to the new religion of the scooter and zero emissions. The anxiety of covering the historic centers of the red cycle path of the cycle paths (often overwhelming also public green) often does not take into account the consequences of this malagestation. And the account – 72 dead – is undoubtedly salty.
