A Strange Libertarian View Of Road Safety

A Strange Libertarian View of Road Safety

Ask any libertarian how he (she) would solve just about any major societal issue; and invariably they’d usually cut back the size of government. And, in most cases there is some rationality to this response.
How about road safety?
Well, here’s a shocker. I’m a libertarian and I think the only way to make our roads safe calls for more government intervention, much more. In fact, I’d have cameras and radar units hidden everywhere along the roads to catch unsafe driving.
Unlike today, when drivers took to the highways they know full well if they followed too close, weaved across the double yellow, or drove faster than everyone else; they’d get caught.
Do you think our roads would be safe with such government meddling? Give this Libertarian more government at least for road safety.

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Roadways Are Like Rattlesnakes


How do you get others to be highway safety fanatics? Or, to even give a second thought to how dangerous the next trip the grocery is?
My dad nearly cut his foot off in a power mower accident when I was a kid. When it came time for him to teach me how to mow the grass; he used to say our lawn mower was like a rattlesnake.
Well, so is your family automobile. So, stop the day dreaming and for pete’s sake get off the cell phone while your diving your kid abound.
When I make left turns at signalized intersections, I turn my radio off. I also visualize, that’s right a rattlesnake up on the dash.
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Road Safety Via Intersection Improvements- Please!

Today’s highway safety boondoggle, story of the day comes from Palm Coast where they are trying to make their roads safe one intersection at a time.
Here’s a quote from the article:

“The City Council will hear presentations on an intersection safety analysis study of Palm Coast Parkway and Old Kings Road, and Belle Terre Parkway and Cypress Point Parkway.
The study, conducted by Ghyabi & Associates, was undertaken due to an increase in traffic accidents at the two intersections.
The report analyzed existing traffic safety and operational conditions at the intersections and offered recommendations for possible inclusion in the city's Transportation Improvement Program.
Among the recommended changes, the consultants offered several safety suggestions for both intersections, including:
· Overlay pavement.
· Provide adequate drainage.
· Groove pavement.
· Provide "Slippery When Wet" signage.
· Install or improve warning sign.
· Install 12-inch signal lenses.
· Improve or install pavement markings.
· Improve roadway lighting."

Please, please give me patience. Regular readers of this blog know the folly of this study / safe roads strategy. Again, let’s say with all this study and implementation of the costly recommendations; accidents are reduced at this location; what is the net result for all of Palm Coast if the problem is not the intersection.
What if the drivers do not practice our five “Safe Driving” rules? What if the unsafe drivers just move down the road to have their accidents?

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It's not road safety; It's safe driving for road safety!

It's not road safety; it's safe driving for road safety!

Say what? I've been around traffic engineering for almost 4 decades. Amazingly, this profession, my profession, has been and continues to chase the wrong variables is safe roads is their goal.

Traffic engineers are spending huge sums of limited tax dollars and time, almost all their time, trying to make intersections and road segments safe. That's trying to make intersections and road segments safe.

The problem is, most of our future highway safety improvement can only come changing the behavior of drivers, since it is drivers that are the primary cause of nearly all traffic accidents.

Stated another way, if an intersection is improved with a traffic signal and accidents go down at that intersection but go up elsewhere because you haven't changed the behavior of drivers; you haven't achieved much.

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road safety can only come from safe driving

Road Safety Can Only Come From Safe Driving

Today's road safety story of the day comes from an item in The Teegraph.Co.UK written by David Millward Tranport Editor.

The title tells the story: "Six in Ten A-roads unsafe, warns Road Safety Foundation."

The only thing wrong with this article is that it seems to blame roads for accidents. It points out that recent research has uncovered that 62% of road deaths occur on these A-roads. But folks, what happens if we spend big bucks on these roads making them as safe as possible; if it is unsafe driving that causes most of the accidents-------------- not roads.

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Safe Driving is the secret to Road Safety

Road Safety by Coordinating Various Agencies


Today's Road Safety Article comes all the way from a 6/25/09 article from the Jakarta Globe.
The following is a quote:

"Giri called for better coordination among the ministries of transportation, public works, health and education, as well as the National Police, to reduce the number of accidents on Indonesian roads. “Those five are the main institutions related directly to traffic accidents, and without good coordination among them, it would be difficult to improve road safety,” he said. The transportation minister, meanwhile, called on road users to use self-discipline, especially with the recent enactment of a new road safety law.

These experts seem to be calling for multiple government agencies to talk to each other; and for drivers to use self-discipline. Well, we all know how easy it is to implement these two pieces of "safe driving" wisdom.

At least these guys knew how many agencies needed to be coordinated, do you know how many in your city? A better question might be, wouldn't it be better yet, if only one single person were held accountable for road safety?

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Road Safety Via Safe Driving

Road Safety Via Safe Driving

To laymen getting to road safety via safe driving only makes sense. To highway safety experts, well they focus on intersections and street sections.
In other words the Highway Safety profession thinks road safety through road improvements.
Which is the best advice?
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Safe Driving Required for Bike Safety

Road Safety Then Bicycle Safety


The latest rage in highway safety seems to be “on road” bike paths. Our State DOT has already painted the paths on the busiest roads in our state, as if this is the secret to bicycle safety.
Frankly, I think all a bike path does is scream that the safety officials are nutty as ding bats. For one thing have you ever noticed how few bicyclists use them?
At best they are a waist of limited tax dollars.
Don’t get me wrong, I am for bike safety. I just don’t think encouraging a relatively slow moving, very small vehicle to mix with much larger, faster, aggressive auto drivers is smart.
Here’s a thought: Bike safety will come only when automobiles are safe to drive our roads.
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Road Safety, A Low National Priority?

Road Safety, A Low National Priority?
You Tell Me!


Today’s safe driving story of the day comes from CleanMPG.com. Entitled, “North Carolina becomes the 14th State to ban texting on the road”

Folks, that’s, "14th State" to ban a certain threat to your family and mine while we are on the roads. If road safety were truly a high priority in America don’t you think more than 14 states would have stopped this non-sense long ago?

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Safe Roads Are Possible

Safe Roads Are Possible!


“Since the founding of America we have lost almost 500 times more lives on our roads than on the battle fields of all wars fought.” …………. From our profound e-book on how to eliminate traffic accidents: Highway Safety’s Best Kept Secret
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The Secret to True Highway Safety-Again

The Secret Too True Highway Safety---- Again


From a June 2009 APWA Reporter article we get the following profound statistic. Please read this over and over. It makes a seemingly simple statement of fact that almost no highway safety professional understands. See if you can?
If you can; the elimination of traffic accidents is just as simple to understand.
The article was entitled: “Going green saves green: how improving driving behavior helps the environment and the bottom line.” The quote is:
“Driving behavior is a factor in nearly 95% of all crashes.”
The article goes on to say, “on average, fleets that implement a comprehensive service to improve driving behavior can lower the number of crashes by 54% ……
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Eliminating Traffic Crashes Not So Difficult

Eliminating Traffic Accidents in the next 10-20 years,
“One of the great 21st Century health achievements”


How about eliminating traffic accidents overnight? Why wait 10-20 years?
Today’s Highway Safety, Boondoggle story of the day comes from none-other than the giant bureaucratic, World Health Organization (W.H.O.). Well, to be truthful they are right on in that they have recognized that the world’s highways are killing 1.27 million and injuring between 20 and 50 million every year; and this kind of mass killing represents one of the world’s great health issues.
But 10-20 years, give me a break. The W.H.O. needs my book. In it we show how to eliminate almost all traffic accidents practically overnight.

See the story at the link below.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/world/16traffic.html?_r=1&ref=health

Highway Safety for MADD & SADD

Interstate Highways- Our Safest Roads??

Yesterday, I was reminded how really unsafe it is to drive on our safest (?) roads. I took a 200 mile trip on I-4 in central Florida. In my book, Highway Safety’s Best Kept Secret, I wrote about my crazies to cops ratio.
While driving the 200 miles I counted 55 crazy, “life threatening” driver moves while spotting just a single cop. My crazies to cop ratio was 5500%.
Frankly, I have a theory about what most drivers have taught themselves on these “safe” roads. Most have learned to go way to fast while following way to close. A 5500% Crazies to Cop ratio screams why these bad habits are taught on our safest roads. Evidently, almost no one is enforcing the existing driving laws?
Next time you ride an Interstate, make your crazies to cop count.
The bottom line is, we get away with aggressive driving when there are no intersections like on our limited access interstates. The problem is we take these aggressive driving habits off the Interstates to the local roads where there is much more friction and dangers.
Yes, our limited access Interstates are safer, but it is also true we learn a lot of life threatening driving habits from the safer ride.
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The Ultimate Dumb Highway Safety Program

The Ultimate Dumb Highway Safety Program

In our “Highway Safety Boondoggle Story of the Day below, we see government folly I find hard to believe:
According to the linked article Russia is using life sized, cardboard cutouts of Brad Pitt to help slow traffic at their busiest intersections. Ah, just what we need a diversion of driver attention at our most congested spots.
Folks, stop the gimmickry. True Highway Safety is like a beautiful golf swing; it’s a learned behavior. You either know how to eliminate traffic accidents or you don’t.
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Highway Safety Boondoggle Story of Day Link:
http://www.examiner.com/x-264-Celebrity-News-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Russians-use-carboard-cutouts-of-Brad-Pitt-to-slow-traffic

Today Highway Safety Story of the Day:

Highway Safety’s Story of Day:

Today’s story of tragedy is all the way from Yeman. A small country with evidently a huge highway safety problem, the causes are the same the world over. Indeed, unsafe drivers are allowed to kill and maim because nearly everyone fails to equate a murder with a gun to a murder on our roads.
How else can you explain our traffic enforcers practically turning blind eye to all the threatening driving on our world’s highways.
In today’s article, the author states that last week 44 people died on Yeman’s highways; while 360 were injured. The article goes on to point out that somehow 30% of the deaths went unreported.
Remember my posting a few days ago where I pointed that our city stopped coding over 40% of the accidents? Folks, we need to get more serious about getting unsafe driving off our roads.

Today’s Highway Safety Link:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news186175.htm

Eliminating Traffic Crashes Not So Difficult

The following article summarizes the success of speed cameras. Look folks, the main reason our highways threaten our families every single day, is because of unsafe drivers. Cameras help our police patrol our roads like no other tool.
Don't you think its time to push their use in your community?
Mike


Traffic fatalities cut in half; Speed cams creditedJune 10, 2009 - 8:19am

There are fewer crashes on roads where speed cameras are located, police say. (WTOP File Photo)
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- You may hate them, but Montgomery County police credit the county's 60 speed cameras with helping cut in half the number of traffic fatalities.
Nine people have died in traffic accidents so far this year. During the same time frame last year, 19 had been killed. In 2007, 18 had died.
"This is not a blip on the radar. This is long-lasting, profound effects on our roadways," said Capt. John Damskey at a public hearing Tuesday night.
Damskey says speed cameras "absolutely" help save lives.
But he says they are not the sole reason fatalities are down.
"They've got to be playing a part."
A 2008 study of 11 camera locations found a 25 percent reduction in crashes on the roads where the speed cameras were located, Damskey said as he testified during a hearing to expand the county's speed camera program.
Drivers caught by the speed cameras end up with $40 tickets. Of that $40, $16.25 of each ticket goes to the private contractor who owns the cameras.
The cameras already generate $15 million. The county is looking for them to bring in $29 million in the next fiscal year. Of that, the county would spend $15.8 million on public safety initiatives.
But not all residents attending the hearing were impressed by the safety statistics.
"I am against the speed cameras. No. 1, I don't think they pick up one of the major hazards on our roadways in Montgomery County right now -- bicyclists," resident Reardon Sullivan told the Montgomery County Council.
Another citizen who supports speed cameras says there's a serious lag time in getting information when you want to fight a ticket.
(Copyright 2009 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.) ROCKVILLE, Md. -- You may hate them, but Montgomery County police credit the county's 60 speed cameras with helping cut in half the number of traffic fatalities.
Nine people have died in traffic accidents so far this year. During the same time frame last year, 19 had been killed. In 2007, 18 had died.
"This is not a blip on the radar. This is long-lasting, profound effects on our roadways," said Capt. John Damskey at a public hearing Tuesday night.
Damskey says speed cameras "absolutely" help save lives.
But he says they are not the sole reason fatalities are down.
"They've got to be playing a part."
A 2008 study of 11 camera locations found a 25 percent reduction in crashes on the roads where the speed cameras were located, Damskey said as he testified during a hearing to expand the county's speed camera program.
Drivers caught by the speed cameras end up with $40 tickets. Of that $40, $16.25 of each ticket goes to the private contractor who owns the cameras.
The cameras already generate $15 million. The county is looking for them to bring in $29 million in the next fiscal year. Of that, the county would spend $15.8 million on public safety initiatives.
But not all residents attending the hearing were impressed by the safety statistics.
"I am against the speed cameras. No. 1, I don't think they pick up one of the major hazards on our roadways in Montgomery County right now -- bicyclists," resident Reardon Sullivan told the Montgomery County Council.
Another citizen who supports speed cameras says there's a serious lag time in getting information when you want to fight a ticket.
(Copyright 2009 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
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How sadd, no one knows how many accidents!

Just recently found out that our police department has unilaterally decided to stop coding all accidents. Our traffic engineer stated that this amounts to not coding approximately 40% of our city's traffic crashes.
Wow, how's that for not understanding the true cause of accidents.

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How to eliminate traffic crashes--- A big hint!

In the following article, this amateur highway safety analyst is closer to making our roads safe than just about the entire highway safety industry. For instance, he states (highlighted) that just about all traffic crashes are caused by driver error.

If this is true why do most highway safety resources flow to solving intersection and roadway design problems?

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Former City Manager Survives Crash

Wubishet Brehanu (PhD)

Wubishet Brehanu (PhD), former city manager of the Caretaker Administration and temporary board president of Hagere Construction, survived a car accident near Kaso Sarbi Kebelle in Sululta Town of the Oromia Regional State.
The accident occurred 10Km north of Addis, when Wubishet and his family were on their way to Gojjam on May 24, 2009. There were no serious injuries or fatalities.

His wife, Tigist Huluka, his children Mare’ed, Samara and Ariam ,his sister-in-law, all survived the calamity with minor injuries. However, the car was severely damaged, according to Sululta Administrative Town Police Station.

The family members are all receiving medical attention at the Black Lion Hospital on Zambia Street, but may soon be discharged as they are all out of danger.
At about 4:30pm, the J90-1996 Toyota Land Cruiser Wubishet was driving (license plate number 35289), skidded off the road, which was slippery due to the rainy weather. When he tried to get back on the road, he collided with a bus, Brehanu Elias, Sululta Town Security Process owner, told Fortune.

The Addis Abeba-Gojjam-Gonder route is known to experience a huge flow of traffic from across the country, most of which are headed on tours to heritage sites, or on business travels, the process owner explained.

Last year, there were a total of 21 accidents which left seven individuals dead, nine severely injured and five with minor injuries , according to the nine months report for the year 2008/09.
On the other hand, there were 22 accidents which caused damages to vehicles and property; 17 of which caused quite serious damage. Altogether, the nine months report shows that the accidents along that road have caused an estimated 1.2 million Br loss of property.

There have been 386 deaths, 453 severe and 260 minor injuries with 552 incidents of damage to property during the stated months at a regional level, according to the Public Relations Office at Oromia Traffic Police Commission. These accidents, which total 1,651, are estimated to have caused more than 14 million Br in property damage.
"Almost all traffic accidents have the same cause," Brehanu told Fortune. "Over-speeding, careless driving, driving without taking much rest, and inability to estimate distances between cars as major ones in this area."
The same mishap - a crash between an Isuzu and a Toyota Hilux - occurred a few minutes after Wubishet's accident, right at a curb in the same kebelle; the Isuzu was travelling from Addis Abeba to Gojjam and the Hilux was headed to the capital from Sululta.

Wubishet is an architect and plays a major role in the construction sector. He has been an advisor on the development of cities, both for the federal and regional governments.
Besides these duties, he was in charge of housing and road construction during the Caretaker Administration. He worked on urban planning and land administration. At present, he is an assistant professor at Addis Abeba University's Faculty of Science and Technology.
By MERGA YONASFORTUNE STAFF WRITER

Watching Traffic Does Not Make Our Roads Safe

The following article describes how one community is throwing money away watching traffic. According to one official the purpose of the $800,000 boondogle is to allow government to monitor traffic accidents so as to minimize the disruption that the accidents might cause.

Will someone please tell me what's wrong with this goal?

For instance, why not spend these limited dollars on something that eliminates traffic accidents instead of just observes them?

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May 31, 2009
Cameras to record I-64 traffic conditions

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Video cameras will be installed along Interstate 64 between Charleston and Huntington as part of an $800,000 project that will allow the Department of Transportation to monitor traffic and road conditions.
The cameras, which will be placed at strategic intersections and exits on I-64 in the southern part of the state, will allow the DOT to supervise accidents and emergencies along the interstate that may cause traffic congestion problems.
The cameras are part of the Intelligent Transportation System that the DOT is implementing across the state. In addition to the cameras, the ITS includes dynamic message boards and weather road sensors, said Brent Walker, DOT spokesman.
Six to eight cameras will be installed on I-64, and in other problem areas in the state, such as outside of the Coliseum in Morgantown, Walker said, but more will be set up along I-79 and other parts of the state as federal funding becomes available.
Funding comes from the Highway Safety Improvement Funds and the Congestion, Mitigation and Air Quality funds. The state DOT is not required to match any of the federal funds, which will funnel in over the next few years.
"We will have TV cameras installed that are in full operation in the fall," said Chuck Runyan, chief of emergency operations for the DOT. "Once we get that, we feel that we can handle anything thrown at us.
"From the management center, we can talk directly to all of the 911 centers in the state. We will be working hand-in-hand."
The cameras will allow highway workers to monitor accidents as they happen, and be able to direct emergency personnel to the correct locations. The main purpose of the cameras will be to monitor traffic, but there is the potential for other applications once the cameras are in place.
"The cameras can pick up a button from about two miles away," Walker said. "West Virginia is not blessed with many flat, straight roads, but [the cameras] will be at some important exits and intersections."
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Video cameras will be installed along Interstate 64 between Charleston and Huntington as part of an $800,000 project that will allow the Department of Transportation to monitor traffic and road conditions.
The cameras, which will be placed at strategic intersections and exits on I-64 in the southern part of the state, will allow the DOT to supervise accidents and emergencies along the interstate that may cause traffic congestion problems.
The cameras are part of the Intelligent Transportation System that the DOT is implementing across the state. In addition to the cameras, the ITS includes dynamic message boards and weather road sensors, said Brent Walker, DOT spokesman.
Six to eight cameras will be installed on I-64, and in other problem areas in the state, such as outside of the Coliseum in Morgantown, Walker said, but more will be set up along I-79 and other parts of the state as federal funding becomes available.
Funding comes from the Highway Safety Improvement Funds and the Congestion, Mitigation and Air Quality funds. The state DOT is not required to match any of the federal funds, which will funnel in over the next few years.
"We will have TV cameras installed that are in full operation in the fall," said Chuck Runyan, chief of emergency operations for the DOT. "Once we get that, we feel that we can handle anything thrown at us.
"From the management center, we can talk directly to all of the 911 centers in the state. We will be working hand-in-hand."
The cameras will allow highway workers to monitor accidents as they happen, and be able to direct emergency personnel to the correct locations. The main purpose of the cameras will be to monitor traffic, but there is the potential for other applications once the cameras are in place.
"The cameras can pick up a button from about two miles away," Walker said. "West Virginia is not blessed with many flat, straight roads, but [the cameras] will be at some important exits and intersections."
Once the cameras are installed, the public will also be able to monitor the camera feeds, Walker said.
"They'll be able to pull up the Web and see everything that we do," he said. "If they are getting ready to travel, they can prepare a little bit better."
As part of the ITS, the state is also looking to add another 13 or 14 dynamic message boards across the state during a $2.1 million sign project, Walker said.
Currently, the DOT has 15 message boards that are used along the major roadways to give the public early warning that there is an accident or emergency ahead.
The third part of the ITS will be Roadway Weather Information Systems, which are sensors placed on the road that can send signals to the transportation management center about road conditions that might not be visible to the naked eye, such as patches of black ice or sections of the road that were too cold for salt to be effective, Walker said.
The cameras are the first wave of improvements the DOT is planning on unveiling in the fall to help monitor the roadways in the Mountain State, but drivers should keep an eye out for more monitoring systems as funding becomes available.
"Anyplace that we see congestion or particularly dangerous intersections with a propensity for accidents, we'll look into installing cameras," Walker said.