Perhaps it may seem like a very clear example of making the just pay for sinners. Or even worse and end up rewarding the one who does things wrong and decides drink to abusive limits, but the reality is that far from an innocent, it seems a hypothetical reality.
Matteo Salvini, former Italian Prime Minister and currently Minister of Transport within Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet, has announced it on her Twitter account and various transalpine media such as Corriere della Sera They already echoed several days ago.
The idea, as Salvini explains, is that the taxi is paid to those who, after voluntarily submitting to a breathalyzer test at the exit of the discos, exceed the limit established to get behind the wheel.
The measure, which is already underway in six relevant clubs distributed by several very touristic towns in Italy, it will take both the driver and the people he was accompanying home and, they explain, it will be paid for by the entertainment venues, prior agreement with the taxi, VTC and car rental companies with driver that can operate in the city.
As is logical, Salvini’s occurrence after meeting with organizations, nightlife companies and influencers In this matter of road safety, it has been criticized for rewarding excessive alcohol consumption, in addition to “financing” people who do so, as the newspaper also mentions. the republic.
What is certain is that the measure, experimental —they insist— has been launched in half a dozen discos, which will be responsible for the cost of the experiment and which are the following: Mascara All Music, Mantua; Il Muretto, Jesolo Lido (Venice); Praja, Gallipoli (Lecce); Baia Imperiale, Gabicce Mare (Pesaro – Urbino); Naki Discotheque, Pavia; La Capannina, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto).
Whether it works or not, Salvini is right on the costs that traffic accidents havebut they are no less right that with this measure —apart from being unfair for other types of taxi uses— it continues encouraging excessive alcohol consumption. Reason why some wonder if it would not be more sensible to make a shuttle bus format, instead of personalized taxis that ‘reward’ those who end up drinking and pay for their way home.
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