Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

Tom Flood (who won an award at OBS this year), wrote a letter to Hamilton City Council as a result of the fatal collision this week.

Sometimes people care more about animals than about people. I wonder whether this would be the case here. I was reading about southern right whales and how they have sometimes caused disruptions to ferries. Perhaps people are more willing to have their lives disrupted by whales than by people.

Case in point, people willingly stop and wait patiently for geese--a truely vile animal---to cross the road, but in the middle of a public park refuse to stop at the PXO for actual human beings in a park.

And just in case you thought we'd finish this week without any more horrific traffic deaths, a driver killed a 12 year old boy and critically injured his 10 year old sister while they were waiting for their school bus.

I even managed to miss a death yesterday, when a drunk driver murdered a 51-year old woman.

Tom Flood needs to turn his letter into a form letter. Because this happens enough it loses all meaning.