NIP arrived. 968It would certainly be difficult to apply the same solutions to the road system. It is just the...
sounding much like they were saying :
NIP arrived. 967Unfortunately your road-airline comparison fails. The number of vehicles involved in air traffic is tiny compared to that on...
Everything comes back to money. Always. It's one of the immutable facts of life.
It's possible to do ANYTHING given enough money, but there is never enough money - so the best job has to be done with the resources available.
No argument.
But even that "appallingly high kill rate" is a very very very very very low percentage of the users of that junction.
Yes. It's a dangerous *manoeuvre*. The manoeuvre can be made safer by better road engineering and junction design. Or it can be made safer - very easily and for free - by drivers exercising the proper care. The manoeuvre only becomes unsafe if drivers fail to do that properly - after all, far more people do it safely than do it unsafely. That can't be luck. Not day in, day out.
Right.
Does the road lose concentration? Does the white line sneakily move? No. The drivers are not treating a hazard with sufficient care.
Agreed.
But the problem is with the drivers. They're too bloody complacent, because the vast majority of driving has been wrapped in cotton wool and made f***wit proof.
