On 09 May 2006 17:43:57 GMT someone who may be Adrian Tupper
wrote this:-

Indeed, the current strategy of slowing traffic down seems to waste a
small amount of many lives (extra time spent getting where you're
going is largely wasted time) to save lives. There has to be a
balance.

I don't agree with that "utilitarian" viewpoint. You can't add up lots
of small amounts of different people's inconveniences and say that's
worse than one or two fatalities. We only experience our own
inconvenience, which I'm happy to do if it avoids pedestrians being hit.

This discussion assumes that slowing motor traffic down means
journeys take longer. In reality what it usually means (in the
places it is done) is that occupants of motor vehicles reach the
next queue a few seconds later than they would have done.


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