Road safety agreement signed

[LazyLion]

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters signed a road safety agreement with the Road Traffic Management Corporation's board in Johannesburg on Thursday.

One of the functions and responsibilities of the agreement was to reduce road fatalities, Peters said.

"We are confident that our vision to create an entity that is well governed and well regarded to assume its role as a lead agency on road safety issues will be a reality and come to fruition.

"We need to make sure we can keep our roads safe," Peters said.


Source : Sapa /ns/jk/lp
Date : 03 Apr 2014 12:42

 

[LazyLion]

You can sign as many damn documents as you want, but until you put some well-trained ethical and responsible officers out there on the streets who know how to police ALL kinds of moving violations and laws of the road, you are not going to accomplish anything.

 

[daveza]

"We need to make sure we can keep our roads safe," Peters said.

Then get cops on the road and out of the bushes.

 

[Eniigma]

You can sign as many damn documents as you want, but until you put some well-trained ethical and responsible officers out there on the streets who know how to police ALL kinds of moving violations and laws of the road, you are not going to accomplish anything.

Something they just don't get.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Waste of time...

Road Traffic police are only interested in the fines income they can make, not actually doing their job.

This is evidenced by the number of Metro police I see on a daily basis sitting at robots(with automated cameras) and not stopping any of the dangerous driving....

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I agree with the guys' sentiments as above.

They will sit for hours beside long stretches of roads, trapping people going at speed.

But totally ignoring traffic violations which occur on a daily basis at certain traffic intersections, wrt taxis etc.

 

[Sonic2k]

They will sit, even on Christmas Day, under a bush, to trap.
On the same road, 100m further up, the traffic lights do not work, or an accident happens. They'll do nothing about that!

 

[McSack]

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters signed a road safety agreement with the Road Traffic Management Corporation's board in Johannesburg on Thursday.

... wonder what the catering bill was for this waste of time

 

[Sinbad]

I thought the official policy was that we are praying for a reduction in the carnage?

 

[DreamKing]

waste of paper!!!

 

[OMB]

One of the functions and responsibilities of the agreement was to reduce road fatalities, Peters said.

how about it being their primary function, everything else stems from that.

How often have we heard this over the last 20 years or so? It needs a coordinated effort between all the Traffic bodies, including the Metros to focus on moving violations, bad driving and road safety of vehicles instead of being used as a source of income to bolster city coffers