I would love to have an audience with the Minister of Transport, his respective Ministers of all nine provinces, and all the Heads of Traffic. jordan 6 I want an accurate list of all the active traffic officers of all the Metro and regional traffic departments, and would like to know the following:
a. How do they keep each traffic officer efficiently and effectively productive for 8 hours per day, 5 working days per jordan 9 week or 40 hours per week’? What are they doing with their time to earn their salaries, because I hardly ever see them being productive.
b. How do they actively and proactively enforce all road laws, not only speeding?
c. jordan 3 How do they contribute to the safe and expeditious flow of traffic? (With emphasis on “FLOW”)
d. What do the traffic officers do to educate drivers while in motion, to add value to the road users without necessary pulling drivers off and fining them, or disrupting traffic?
2. I have plenty ideas for the traffic and transport sector, that relative to the cost of the carnage on our roads, cost peanuts.
3. With regard to the speed limit: Utter rubbish, on Discovery Channel a programme was once shown that proved that people driving faster, without cell phones and BBM, make up and the like (emphasis included by me), have better concentration and problem solving abilities, this was done by doing brain activity scans, while drivers were driving fast and while driving slow.
4. Chance of death does increase with speed, but is not the root cause of the carnage and road deaths on South African roads. If the Ministers and law enforcement agencies would collect and analyse proper road death toll statistics they would clearly notice the root causes of the carnage and deaths.
5. Most law abiding road users that observe the chaos on our roads will clearly agree that the following are the root causes of the mess on our roads:b. Lawlessness and total disregard of signage and road markings and rules of the road.
c. Unlicensed, and forged licenced drivers. Reckless Driving. Reckless Driving does not necessary mean driving fast (within the speed limit), but includes some of the follow habits seen way too often on South African road on a daily basis:
i. U turns on highways.
ii. Crossing 3 to 4 lanes at the last moment to take off ramps or to drop off or up load passengers with our without indication. We won’t even mention the fact that pedestrians are illegal on highways.
iii. Passing over solid white lines, often in the vicinity of “no overtaking boards”, and the forcing into traffic.
iv. Passing in yellow lines and forcing into traffic.
v. Overtaking in dangerous places and forcing into traffic endangering the lives of others and forcing them to take evasive action.
vi. Going straight in turning lanes, or similar offences.
vii. Not stopping at traffic lights and stop signs. This includes blatantly ignoring three phase traffic lights’ turning phases.
6. These days the average South African road user is to blame, for the above mentioned offences. Eventually we run out of luck and kill someone else (murder) or even better ourselves, then at least there is one less lawless, reckless driver on the roads.
7. We need hard core, corruption free policing and law enforcement. Prison time, with revocation of licences must the mandatory punishment for accidents caused by blatant lawlessness, recklessness and un roadworthiness, especially when it causes deaths.
When a head on collision is caused by crossing solid white lines and/or in areas of no overtaking signage, prison time must be the mandatory punishment. Accidents caused by people overtaking in the yellow line and pushing in should have prison time as the mandatory punishment. There must be no, not even a remote, possibility of squashing fines or bribing a corrupt officials for offences like these. Only hard core law enforcement with scare the senses back into this lawless nation of ours.
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