Road Safety - U.S. adopting some postive controls.

Yes finally after over 3 years of posts and hassling the leaders in road safety, someone has been listening and in the U.S. are adopting more pysical controls over behavioural controls.

I'm not saying their approach is perfect but a big well done must be given for increasing the focuss on pysical controls and especially adopting the Hierachy of controls in their approach to road safety.

Wisconsin officials say cable barriers - designed to prevent head-on collisions caused by motorists who cross lanes into oncoming traffic - work because they absorb impact better than concrete. They also don't cost as much.

Removing roadside barriers, from trees to light poles, also helps.

Many states have installed breakaway barriers, most notably on supports for overpasses, that "give" when struck by a car. Georgia, reacting to figures that show three of four fatalities occur when cars hit trees, is reacting by removing roadside trees.

They are also experiementing with white lines called 'speed bars' that apparently " Seeing optical speed bars painted on the roadway is supposed to give drivers an optical illusion -- that they are going faster than they actually are"

Now some highly paid psycologist has come up with some idea to protect their existence in safety, I believe its a total wank as we are already going way too slow so any feeling of going faster is great but these are a total load of crap. They are also experimenting with white dots to prevent tailgaiting, man who let these psyco's into safety and especially having such influence as to come up with stupidity like this?

But then I guess if they are focussing on removing tree's and poles and working at putting energy absorbing barriers in to prevent head on's they can have thier junkets too as the positives of this initiative far outwiegh the negatives of some psyco's white line fever.

And even more positive is they recognise reduced fuel costs will lead to more driving and the potential to increase accident rates dramatically Falling gasoline prices, coupled with increasing airport hassles, have convinced many consumers to travel by car rather than air -- especially for trips of under 500 miles.

As a result, state transportation agencies are redoubling efforts to make roads safer. But paying for it often poses problems.

It shows to all those safety practitioners out there that if you keep persisting even though, the scared unqualified Safety Institute of Australia will ban you, that you can make a difference in this world as some people listen as have done on this occasion. The SIA thinks they can fob off those with the knowledge, experience and qualifications to protect their unqualified men's club, but I guess the mistake they made with their lack of experience and knowledge is that they thought I would go away. If you have an issue just keep persisting with it and eventually it will be heard as I will continue to do with the Safety Institute of Australia, just keep persisting untill the old school who have done it that way for 30 years retires and we actually get qualified people leading the safety profession in this country anyway.

Regards
Daniel