| Jools and others have hit the nail on the head...this is about gesture politics, allied to the commitment all govts have made to reduce traffic deaths. (Btw, more bang per governmental buck if you can reduce the number of most-at-risk road users by preventing them from getting a license at all by reducing the number of test centres available).
And what is it which is fuelling this lemming-like rush to slow down?? One slogan. The big lie. The jackpot. El Gordo.
Speed Kills
If this were true, of course, we'd all be dead, as we are hurtling around the sun at squillions of mph, but it is short enough that even a Mail reader's wife can remember it when hubby accelerates too hard on the shopping run.
But, "Relative speed kills" requires actual thought, and introduces the possibility that other factors may be in play. And it does not suit the purposes of those on the wilder shores of ecomentalism. |