Road and water deaths down
The 2008 road toll was 359, a 52 year low. The previous low in 1956 was at a time when there were one fifth the number of cars. The Herald speculates increased fuel prices may have been a factor. They...
View ArticleLabour’s balanced transport policy
Labour’s Darien Fenton has said: “Labour would support the lowering of the alcohol limit, because anything that will save lives on our roads is worth doing,” says Ms Fenton. So we know what to look...
View ArticleTransport policies for Labour
I blogged yesterday on how Labour had announced: “Labour would support the lowering of the alcohol limit, because anything that will save lives on our roads is worth doing,” says Ms Fenton. Readers...
View ArticleThe 2012 road toll
The Herald reports: Last year New Zealand recorded its second lowest road toll in 50 years, with the deaths of young people significantly stemmed, police say. At midnight, the provisional road toll...
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The ever dropping road toll
The 2013 road toll is 254 dead, an 18% drop on 2012. This is the 2nd largest percentage drop since 1974. The largest was in 2011 when it dropped 24%. As you can see the road toll is at a 60 year low....
View ArticleOverstating our road toll
The Press editorial: By just about any measure, New Zealand driving is worse than in any comparable developed country. When, 40 years ago, the carnage on the roads was much higher it was taken as the...
View ArticleA fail for zero tolerance
Stuff reports: Critics have labelled a zero-speed-tolerance campaign a failure as the holiday road toll is more than double last year’s. A crash in Christchurch this morning brought the number of the...
View ArticleWhat has gone wrong with the road toll?
The Herald reports: More people have died on New Zealand roads this year than the entire amount killed in 2013. AA has issued a warning to road users following the concerning figures, which show 255...
View ArticleCyclists praise Bridges
Stuff reports: Five cyclists died on the roads in 2016 – the lowest annual number recorded in 25 years, latest road toll figures show. The Cycling Action Network hailed the preliminary figures as...
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Road Toll increases
After a downwards trend for around 30 years, we may have seen it reverse. The toll has now increased for three years in a row. This is the more useful graph, showing the toll per 10,000 vehicles. But...
View ArticleA target of zero is a meaningless target
The Herald reports: The Government has proposed an “audacious” target of zero deaths on New Zealand roads. Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter announced plans for a new road safety strategy...
View ArticleDom Post lashes Genter
The Dom Post last week: Children and beauty pageant contestants say the darnedest things: Talk with them about some of the trickiest global issues and the reply is invariably the same. What would you...
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Genter says she can do nothing about road toll for “many decades”
The Herald reports: It will be “many decades” before New Zealand sees a substantial change in the road toll, says Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter.Her comments come after New Zealand...
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