Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

It's only no one else's business while it is not affecting other
people's safety.

This is not true of car journeys.


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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:44:16 +0100, "AndrewR"

Why is this a requirement for action. Changing from 5 deaths per year
to 5 deaths every hundred years would be a worthwhile thing to do
surely?

But much more cost-effective, would be to spend the tens of billions
on road safety, as that would result in about 100-1000 deaths
prevented every year.

Perhaps you feel that it's pointless to save 20 to 200 thousand lives
over a couple of decades?

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I can see mountains 60 miles away (on a clear day) from my upstairs window.
Nothing to do with the thread but I had to share.

 

Wrong.

 

Why? It worked in France.

Guy

 

Source?
Seriously, I've seen this kind of figure mentioned many times but not seen
the research to back it up. That's not to say it's not true, but if you have
a link I'd like to view and absorb.

 

Indeed, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death in under 15's

Tony

 

Ahh, bring back smallpox I say.

 

Heh. You know what I mean...

"bought the car off a bloke in a pub".

 

Because there's no causal relationship between road deaths and policing.

 

Leading cause of injury death, yes, but the leading cause of death is,
IIRC, congenital illness.

Guy

 

Which invites the question: why did it work in France?

So, cite your evidence, please.

Guy

 

Guy - could you oblige the gent, please?




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Get a smart. Convert it to LPG (no congestion charge). Drive into London.

 

taywood wrote:

[ ... ]

How common is it for such arrangements to be made by companies, and how do
you know that any of it applies to the drivers to whom you were referring?
After all, it isn't easy to see how you can know the details of pay
agreements for companies located a mile from your house, is it? Or perhaps
you think that arrangements like that are common or usual?

 

Why limit your concerns to car journeys and "safety"?

Why not express concern (and claim some vague right to "intervene") about
other aspects of human behaviour?

 

Even more cost effective is putting the tens of billions into the NHS,
would would save some of the 80,000 a year needless deaths that THEY cause.

 

I know several flats in town centers whose interiors are viewable by CCTV

 

I can see that that could cause congestion.

I cannot see how that could cause more congestion that longer journeys
would.

Those "constraints" are not uniform or universal. There are no
insurmountable "property boundary" problems at the junction of the M1, M6
and A14, for instance.

Haven't you (whether inadvertently or not) overlooked the very significant
and quite *deliberate* reduction in capacity of many urban, suburban and
rural roads as a cause of congestion? If, for instance, a road is reduced
from four lanes to two, with bus-stops "built-out" on purpose in order to
trap vehicles behind stationary buses, wouldn;t you expect an increase in
congestion, even without an increase (and perhaps even with a decrease) in
traffic?

Is it?

I have been there many times.

Never been caught in a jam there - not even once.

 

Actually road-death prevention measures are much cheaper than
providing acute trauma care for people who've been involved in road
traffic accidents.


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