Arch. Anselmo Santilli- ZED PROGETTI srl

The diffusion of the use of private transport is not a strange thing. It’s simple because you can leave when you want and you can simply change your programs if there are sudden setbacks. It grants you a complete independence and this is the basis of its success.
According to this condition, the only way to reduce the use of the private car is to try to equalize the public transport to the private one. We can do this by correct planning which offers a very high frequency of the transits and creating the largest diffused presence of the public stops along the urban area. The frequency will be fundamental, but it will be even more important to have a complete cover of all the hours of the day. Infact, a main factor is the certainty of finding public transportation at the set time.
However, it will not be possible to cover all urban and especially suburban areas. It will therefore be necessary to create a kind of conditioning of people. We should avoid raising the price of fuel because it only creates tension. We think it would be better to ‘hammer’ people with incessant educational campaigns on the importance of saving the environment and reducing global warming by reducing pollution related to the use of private transport.
In summary, all this will not be enough, however, even if this may seem strange to many engagé intellectuals. Things will probably only change with the spread of a private electric transport system and the production of ‘clean’ energy through nuclear fusion.