This was epic.

Yesterday, World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Fratelli d’Italia (far right party at government, the party of Giorgia Meloni), had organized for Sunday afternoon a protest in the car against the policies on the mobility of Rome mayor. in particular against the cycle paths that “proliferate, remove parking, reduce the roadways and create much more pollution”.

The idea was to leave with cars in procession. The procession, however, was never held: the cars ready to participate were too many:

300 cars in the motorcade would mean paralyzing the entire city

So in wanting to protest against the albeit timid mobility policies to improve mobility, those of FdI managed in one fell swoop to:

• collect 300 cars, too many because they would “paralyze the city”, so no procession

• have little support: 300 cars carry very few people. The procession became a garrison, the few people were all in front of a bus

• show how “the freedom to choose” the car is not a freedom, but arrogance: a minority using cars is enough to live no room for everyone else

• “the collapsing mobility” they talk about is actually caused by cars, considering that just 300 cars can “paralyze the entire city”

• a subway train (but also a modern tram) would bring more people than those at the demonstration, without causing collapses

And there was no need for any cross-examination, they did everything themselves.

I think this will go down in the annals.

(Part of the post is a translation from this toot, part is translated from the linked article, in Italian)