The new Italian cycling coach Bennati: “worried about worsening road safety”

“The situation of Italian roads has recently worsened, and I don’t see any attention from the institutions. Even the new rules in the traffic code have not brought any help to the general state of traffic. A cyclist who goes out in training never knows if he will return home. , I’m worried”. Daniele Bennati, the new coach of the national cycling team, tells Adnkronos. “For several years we in the environment have been carrying out campaigns for road safety but I do not see any attention from politics in general. It is a shame, because even if Italy has an important history in this sport, with so many fans, in raltà then go to the streets and see that it is not: cyclists and pedestrians are seen as hindrances, and they suffer from it. And it is getting worse, when I turned pro in 2002 the situation was better “. Although “in my new role I will have to follow training only in the major appointments, therefore generally with closed roads, this deterioration worries me equally: we should get more attention from the institutions”, concludes Bennati.