Activists should take legal action against the speed limit increase on the city's main roads.
Urban mobility and consumer protection organizations plan to file for an injunction in court to suspend the increase in speed limits on the Tietê and Pinheiros expressways, which will be adopted by the mayor-elect of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), starting January 25th; the policy of the current mayor, Fernando Haddad (PT), reduced the number of fatal accidents to historic lows.
247 – Urban mobility and consumer protection organizations plan to file for an injunction in court to suspend the increase in speed limits on the Tietê and Pinheiros expressways, which will be adopted by the mayor-elect of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), starting on January 25.
The information is from column by journalist Monica Bergamo, in Folha. The policy of the current mayor, Fernando Haddad (PT), has reduced the number of fatal accidents to historic levels. Report from the same newspaper This Thursday, the 22nd, it was noted that the Marginal Tietê highway has gone 19 months without any pedestrian deaths.
The group of associations – including the NGOs Ciclocidade and Cidadeapé and Idec (Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection) – primarily wants the future mayor to be required to hold public hearings before altering the speed limit. "It is a legal requirement that any change of this magnitude be debated with the population," argues lawyer Juliana Maggi, who is handling the case and wants to present it at the beginning of the year.
On the same day as the announcement made by Doria's team, mobility activist groups delivered a document to the Public Prosecutor's Office of São Paulo asking that the policy of reducing the maximum speed on the roads of the capital of São Paulo be maintained.read here).