RE: Engineering for Safety
Thursday 14th March 2002
Engineering for Safety
Is the Govt's new initiative likely to promote real innovation in road layout or will it just mean new types of obstacle for the motorist?
Discussion
“The Government’s Road Safety Strategy Tomorrow’s Roads – Safer for Everyone identified local high streets as among the least safe of all urban roads"
No, really? It's not as if there's any reason for it... As the minister said, the roads carry high volumes of traffic. That combined with all the shops (and hence people) mean there's bound to be more accidents. After all, there's not exactly a load of pedestrians on a motorway.
Seems to me it's the application of statistics without thought. Higher accident rate = more dangerous, and a need for 'traffic calming', which must make narrow winding country roads with blind bends amongst the safest in the UK, as the number of pedestrians hit on them is so low...
Around where I live it's become virtually impossible to get anywhere without driving over at least one speed hump, and frankly I've had enough.
Anyhow, rant over.
Dan
No, really? It's not as if there's any reason for it... As the minister said, the roads carry high volumes of traffic. That combined with all the shops (and hence people) mean there's bound to be more accidents. After all, there's not exactly a load of pedestrians on a motorway.
Seems to me it's the application of statistics without thought. Higher accident rate = more dangerous, and a need for 'traffic calming', which must make narrow winding country roads with blind bends amongst the safest in the UK, as the number of pedestrians hit on them is so low...
Around where I live it's become virtually impossible to get anywhere without driving over at least one speed hump, and frankly I've had enough.
Anyhow, rant over.
Dan
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