Cesena has been at 30 km/h for 26 years: the speed limit is part of a safety strategy that has halved the number of accidents

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Cesena has been at 30 km/h for 26 years: the speed limit is part of a safety strategy that has halved the number of accidents

It was the first Italian municipality to introduce the limit of 30 kilometers per hour on some streets. It was 1998. Since then, the '30 zones' have steadily increased. Today in Cesena they extend for 143 kilometers and cover more than a thousand hectares of surface covering 38% of the population. “Measures requested by popular acclaim - says the mayor of the Romagna city Enzo Lattuca (Pd) -, with meetings and subscriptions. Even now, when I mee…