Safe Passage - What should be the top three priorities to stop or, at least, lessen road fatalities?
My contribution in the Q&A feature in The Times of Malta, Saturday 29th Januray 2017 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170128/opinion/safe-passage.637799 The steady increase in road accidents and the resulting injuries and fatalities is not simply a perception but is proven by statistics. Moreover, the disproportionate increase in motorcycle accidents, which is greater than the increase in the proportion of people using them, shows that motorcyclists and cyclists are more vulnerable. This needs to be addressed if we want to encourage people to move away from their cars and use these modes of transport to ease traffic congestion problems. The Nationalist Party last year published a policy document entitled ‘Reducing traffic congestion’. Although its proposals aim to tackle traffic congestion, some of them overlap with improving road safety. Decreasing the number of cars on the road is the most obvious way of reducing the number of accidents. Therefore, measu