Mors mea 
This is not really a thought today. Has he been I want to take away from this toad goiter. Scenario: Bologna 2007 (even if everything has its origins a few years earlier). After the number plate, and various other escamottages tempted by several municipalities to try to stem the scourge of pollution citizen for some years been active in Bologna an electronic controls that monitor all access to the city center. This system is called Sirius and is up and running and if you are not resident in the center and it comes with the car during the day getting caught by a fine well enough salt. Okay, yes. I live just outside the walls so I have no right to go to the center by car. I take the bus or I walk.
Bologna is a city particularly from town, all narrow streets and alleys, arcades everywhere later though messy and uneven: walking through the center walk is fun and tell the truth all those machines around that do not disturb and hinder pedestrians. Then park is becoming an impossible task: after miles of laps in the streets looking for a place to park anywhere in the end all, at the risk of forced removal, although not to pay the 5 euro per hour of parking officers. So at the end in a 3 meter wide alley if you put the row of parked cars and we also add those transiting the city turns into a gut plates that move slowly, with no clear destination, filled of hysterical people surrounded by angry pedestrians because they do not know where to get more physical.
Sirius tries to solve the root problem: you do not enter more in the car unless you live in the area. An attempt to facilitate the traffic in the center, as well as try to reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, which pollutes the air already smelling the city. Moreover
European cities the size of Amsterdam, just as an example, just groped for solving these problems are completely closed to traffic. And to say that Amsterdam has not even underground. All run in the bus, or go on foot, of course, cycling.
But here, in Bologna, Bologna Rossa, la città all’avanguardia dell’Emilia Romagna ci sono ragioni che vanno oltre l’urbanistica e la viabilità e ancor di più oltre l’urgenza di porre rimedio alla salute dell’aria. Il sacrosanto commercio.
Ma torniamo a noi: l’infallibile sistema Sirio ha però lasciato aperto un varco. Durante il week end non è attivo. Mossa strategica dell’amministrazione comunale che non poteva permettersi, politicamente, di andare contro tutti i commercianti del centro, già incazzati come delle iene per la perdita di potenziali avventori automobilisti nei giorni feriali.
L’anima del commercio è la salvezza della città.
Allora commercianti the center of the city, unite! Rightly, who makes you do give up thousands of potential customers who would willingly drive downtown? Since at least the weekend you can come in, that does not sponsor, do not know at all? So here's the result: a shop in Bologna, two in the window this nice invitation to enter quietly into the car in the center during the weekend, as Sirius goes to sleep and does not realize it.
That is: instead of trying to stimulate the shopping "healthy" type "come downtown on foot and save the money for parking and be well on the air to Bologna" or something like that, the invitation is to "scrub" the system as you can. That is, "continue to pollute and clog the well center, the controls are suspended."
Sirius is annoying perhaps, but for once can not we just try to pretend to keep us at least a little 'to our city? Or try, at least for the spirit of emulation "xenophile" to imitate those who really believe in?
bad.
