i3 consultants WA
  • Home
  • Projects
  • Testimonials
  • Qualifications
  • Contact
  • Traffic Impact Assessments
  • Traffic Engineering
  • Road Safety Audits
  • Transport Planning
  • Waste Management
  • Roadworks Traffic Management
  • T'n'T News Blog
  • Awards
  • Innovation
  • Policies

Are current enforcement practices making our road safer?

21/9/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Yesterday I was fined $200 for travelling at 73 km/h at the 60 km/h sign on the northbound Mitchell Fwy off-ramp to Hutton St.

The Freeway is 100 km/h and it takes a while to reduce to 60 km/h. The off-ramp is designed to Freeway standards, there are no access driveways, no adjacent properties and no paths on it. There have also not been any reported injury crashes in the latest available 5 year crash record.

The crash map shows literally hundreds of locations where crashes are occurring but the Police think that targeting a road with an inappropriate speed limit and no crash record is more important.
It will definitely raise more money than targeting other roads, but it won't save any lives or injuries. And people wonder why WA has one of the the worst road safety records in the Western world. And the politicians and Police tell us that current enforcement practices (which are not working) are not about revenue raising.

By the end of this week another four people will have died on our roads and another 27 seriously injured. But the Police will have met their quota because everybody drives fast past the 60 km/h speed sign on this Freeway off-ramp and they know that.

What should we do?

​Slow down quickly and get hit from behind and start having high speed rear-end crashes where we have never had them before? Or should the Police concentrate their enforcement on roads with a known crash problem so we can reduce crashes and save lives instead of introducing crashes where there have not been any before?
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    David Wilkins, Principal & Senior Traffic Engineer.

    Archives

    June 2022
    October 2021
    September 2020
    May 2020
    December 2019
    June 2019
    March 2019
    November 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016

    Categories

    All
    Awards
    Crowded Places
    Ports
    Road Safety
    Roadwork Zones
    Schools
    Transport Impacts

    RSS Feed

    Home
i3 consultants WA
P 08 9467 7478 M 0407 440 327
PO Box 1638
SUBIACO WA 6904
ABN 53 745 566 923
Website by i3 consultants WA
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Projects
  • Testimonials
  • Qualifications
  • Contact
  • Traffic Impact Assessments
  • Traffic Engineering
  • Road Safety Audits
  • Transport Planning
  • Waste Management
  • Roadworks Traffic Management
  • T'n'T News Blog
  • Awards
  • Innovation
  • Policies