Bl@@dy politicians. They have just introduced a new revision of the rules of the road here in Italy. A move in the right direction is to legislate that the minimum time for an orange(yellow?) traffic light will be 3 seconds. There is however concern that local councils may reduce longer periods to 3 seconds. In the past there were some unscrupulous councils that had shorter times to make money on red-light cameras (one got me in a time it was impossible to stop before crossing the threshold - Very dangerous!)

More controversial is provisions that will allow a lot more speed cameras, to allow electric bikes and even those little electric scooters to use public transport lanes, and to allow bikes to go the wrong way on one-way streets in 30 kph zones (ie. City centres).

Bikes already disobey all the rules so rather than enforce the rules let's change them to allow bicyclists to do whatever they like.

Peter

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