Wednesday 27th November 2002

Safer Roads on the Cheap

Time for some fresh thinking

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[JohnL]

Shortage of appropriate staff?

Consider that in civil engineering, a professionally qualified engineer (master's degree plus professional training) typically earns less than firemen think they are worth.

However, they are quite able and willing to get alternative employment, and recruitment is well down - it's hardly surprising is it?

[Mudge]

What's all this about "lack of money"? There appears to be no shortage of resources to put in bus lanes, speed limit reductions, cycle lanes, speed cameras and road humps.

But unfortunately anything that will really make the roads safer is last in the queue.

[P*Ting]

What's all this about "lack of money"? There appears to be no shortage of resources to put in bus lanes, speed limit reductions, cycle lanes, speed cameras and road humps.

But unfortunately anything that will really make the roads safer is last in the queue.

[Don]

Maybe the crap road engineering we see these days is because they don't have anybody qualified left to do it - and some vegetablist teaboys got the job....


People are dying and they put in a bus lane.

[joephandango]

At last somebody's woken up to the fact that in a hell of a lot of cases, it's the road condition that causes the accidents not speed !!! The ADB have the stats here: www.abd.org.uk/one_third.htm
Interestingly, if you add up the figures, (honestly unlike those responsible for prolificating the "one third" lies) you come out with 6.1% of all accidents caused by road/lighting/signage conditions. Thats very close to the actual figure attributed to excessive speed. If the government are prepared to spend squillions on measures to reduce the main factor in 7.3% of accidents, should they not be expected to spend a proportional amount on reducing the main factors in what amounts to 6.1%?????