deliberate congestion to ease the roadtoll
and here we have a guvmint saying its ...all about speed
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Snarls ease road toll
Liam Houlihan
August 04, 2006 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun
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OUTGOING VicRoads chief executive David Anderson has admitted traffic congestion has been used as a weapon in the war on the state road toll.
Mr Anderson, in charge of the state's roads, registrations and licensing, delivered a damning self-analysis at a traffic conference opened yesterday by Transport Minister Peter Batchelor.
The VicRoads boss shocked those in attendance when he said congestion was not necessarily a bad thing as it prevented crashes. He even admitted that his organisation had deliberately cultivated clogged traffic.
"Is it better to have fewer crashes or is it better to have freer traffic? We're going with the fewer crashes at the moment," he said. "We've used congestion to stop crashes. We've created congestion."
Mr Anderson's remarks come before he steps down next month after five years as the state's roads chief.
The congestion convert was appointed by the Bracks Government, which is now holding an inquiry into how to eradicate traffic jams in Melbourne.
The Government has consistently attributed its low road tolls to "a strict road safety regime" with zero tolerance policing.
Mr Anderson labelled some of VicRoads' own work "bloody embarrassing" and said improved road safety was due to worsening traffic logjams.
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I reckon Vicroads just pharked the Vic Transport and Police Ministers
cheers
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