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Well... with the road toll only a dozen or so below that for last year's, it's looking like this year is going to be the second year in a row showing an increase in the road toll... This comes despite the fact that in the last two years the number of ticketing offences have risen by some 30-45%... the Police and LTSA tell us that their anti-speed campaigns are working and more people are slowing down and that increased levels of enforcement are helping..... are they? When will the general public of NZ (who, apart from us PHers seem to actually be rather accepting of this and seem to believe that speeding is the worst scourge on our roads) wake up to the fact that we're just being fed an extra tax and that it's doing sweet f*^k all to lower the road toll.... injecting a few billion of Labour's $7b+ vote-buying fund into this nations roading could go a long way to solving this... hell.... for that we could probably go a long way to building a dual-carriageway the length of the country! Anyone else feeling fed up with this anti-motorist tirade? If it gets any worse it'll turn into Britain!
You're taking the LTSA figures as gospel though... an article I saw in Hawkes Bay Today was explaining how the LTSA figures recently have neglected a lot of road-related deaths that the road tolls previously included (deaths on private roads, and certain cases of pedestrian/cyclist deaths)... these account for some 20-30 deaths per year, putting it back up to similar levels to last year's toll. If you break it down even further into 6-monthly intervals, then the last 6 months have been SHOCKING, we were on track for another record low until about June-'04.
Basically it comes down to the lack of sensible policing... ask yourself when the last time you saw a speed camera parked outside a schol was.... compare that to the number of speed cameras on passing lanes. 'Nuff said.
Basically it comes down to the lack of sensible policing... ask yourself when the last time you saw a speed camera parked outside a schol was.... compare that to the number of speed cameras on passing lanes. 'Nuff said.
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