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The 80/20 principle and road death blackspots?

  • 19-11-2009 5:46pm
    #1
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭


    How many "accident blackspots" are there in the country? If the most dangerous 1000 say could be indentified , would it be worth treating them as special cases and traffic light them as one way stretches, put obvious cameras in or put in obsticles in to slow traffic down?

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  • #2
    stainluss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭stainluss


    silverharp wrote: »
    How many "accident blackspots" are there in the country? If the most dangerous 1000 say could be indentified , would it be worth treating them as special cases and traffic light them as one way stretches, put obvious cameras in or put in obsticles in to slow traffic down?

    Maybe not the whole one way traffic lights thing, those are annoying.

    But youre absolutely right something should be done.

    We spend a few million on tv rights to games, we could throw a few more quid into keeping people from dying pointlessly..


  • #3
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    In fairness some of the reduction in accidents has already come about from directing resources towards places that are rated poorly in the Euro RAP survey.


  • #4
    Trick of the Tail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Trick of the Tail


    No, not 'cameras' or 'obstacles' - FIX THE ROAD so its not dangerous!

    A.


  • #5
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    alinton wrote: »
    No, not 'cameras' or 'obstacles' - FIX THE ROAD so its not dangerous!

    A.

    I dont disagree but if we are talling about a country road where a house for instance forces a sharp bend in it, wont it come down to a choice of spending 100K versus a million?

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  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,111 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    silverharp wrote: »
    I dont disagree but if we are talling about a country road where a house for instance forces a sharp bend in it, wont it come down to a choice of spending 100K versus a million?

    Spend the million - you can put all the cameras you want in there and there will still be another crash, costing far more than a million in compensation / damage / societal costs.


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  • #7
    SC024
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭SC024


    MYOB wrote: »
    Spend the million - you can put all the cameras you want in there and there will still be another crash, costing far more than a million in compensation / damage / societal costs.

    At last,Finally someone talks some sense in relation to road safety...


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