Road safety authority suggestion...

[morryah]

Why don't these guys come up with a national list, road by road (start now, job for life) with their audit / recommendations for markings, bollards, missing signs, bad corners etc etc. etc. publish it and embarrass the authorities into creating proper roads.

In fact, any entity / body could do this - with enough moral authority.

I wonder would Conor Faughnan or similar come on board as a mouthpiece.

Anyone who has an accident on a piece of road that was picked out in such a fashion might then have another stick to beat the local council with if it was done right and force them to act.....

Well?

[morryah]

ps this suggestion was sponsored by senator donie cassidy....

[pauriceenjack]

We need a road safety audit done on a year by year basis

would the insurance companies pay a levy to an independent organisation which would:

1) Measure surface friction of carraige way pavements.

2) Report on sightlines encroached and obscured

3) trees in a dangerous condition

4) bad road signage

5 ) inappropriate signage

6) subsided undulating surfaces

Etc

[HanleyS]

It's a good idea. I'm not sure if The AA have the interests of the common motorist at heart though.

[morryah]

We need a road safety audit done on a year by year basis

would the insurance companies pay a levy to an independent organisation which would:

1) Measure surface friction of carraige way pavements.

2) Report on sightlines encroached and obscured

3) trees in a dangerous condition

4) bad road signage

5 ) inappropriate signage

6) subsided undulating surfaces

Etc

The NRA do audits but probably not the same style.

http://www.nra.ie/NetworkManagement/Saf ... etyAudits/

But god knows where you get the results, stripped of the technical mumbo jumbo and presentable the public....

[HanleyS]

Effectively that's self-evaluation by the NRA. An independent audit would be nice.

[CookieMonster]

We need a road safety audit done on a year by year basis

would the insurance companies pay a levy to an independent organisation which would:

Why would insurance companies do anything of the sort?
I tiny fraction of accidents are caused by road conditions. And in cases where road conditions were a factor the major fault still rests with driver error.

[morryah]

Effectively that's self-evaluation by the NRA. An independent audit would be nice.

like everything else, an independent regulator is needed.

e.g. I don't know what a traffic cone is.

[pauriceenjack]

They audit design for new roads

We need audits on existing roads

[CookieMonster]

Effectively that's self-evaluation by the NRA. An independent audit would be nice.

like everything else, an independent regulator is needed.

e.g. I don't know what a traffic cone is.

Traffic cone, yellow box, traffic light, stop sign...