The "I Respect the Cyclist" Association founded by Maurizio Fondriest, Paola Gianotti, and Marco Cavorso, has called a press conference for Saturday, January 18th at 3 PM at the "Mugello Circuit" in Scarperia following the approval in the past December of the road code norm, establishing a minimum distance of one and a half meters to be observed when overtaking a cyclist. "An approval - the Association announces - that comes 10 years after the campaign was launched, and which traces an important change for those cycling on Italian roads, with lasting and significant effects especially for future generations who will travel our roads with this regulatory precept".
The norm, improvable in form, has above all, for founders Fondriest, Gianotti, and Cavorso, a social and educational effect, certainly not a prescriptive one, just as it is currently for the cyclist-saving signs campaign they have addressed to all Italian Municipalities with enormous success. At the January 18th conference, in addition to providing a brief historical overview of the one-and-a-half-meter campaign and the related signage, they will present the project that will engage the Association in the coming years, namely the adoption of bike lanes by Italian municipalities, as the natural completion and integration of the one-and-a-half-meter rule.
To this end, the Association will approach central institutions for regulatory aspects, and all 8,000 Italian municipalities will be consulted again, collaborating with them for the adoption of this important urban and social tool, the bike lane. "Everything we will continue to do together - concludes the Association's note - will always be in respect and in honor of Tommy Cavorso's memory and all the girls and boys who have lost their lives cycling on our roads in recent years".