The article makes reference to the Nordic approach and refers to changes they made to urban areas to reduce deaths. All of the changes they made are genuinely great, except for the fact the article also discloses that most deaths in Ireland are in rural areas.
So what to do about rural areas?
horgantron on
Ummm what about the elephant in the room? The complete and utter lack of enforcement.
EchoedMinds on
“No, the kids walking to school need to wear high vis and helmets in case they’re hit by a vicious cyclist and then the Expert blames the poor innocent drivers of Ireland” – the RSA probably
Hundredth1diot on
I agree with the sentiment, but there’s a frustrating lack of apples-apples comparisons in that article, e.g. comparing Helsinki (zero traffic fatalities) with the whole of Ireland.
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The article makes reference to the Nordic approach and refers to changes they made to urban areas to reduce deaths. All of the changes they made are genuinely great, except for the fact the article also discloses that most deaths in Ireland are in rural areas.
So what to do about rural areas?
Ummm what about the elephant in the room? The complete and utter lack of enforcement.
“No, the kids walking to school need to wear high vis and helmets in case they’re hit by a vicious cyclist and then the Expert blames the poor innocent drivers of Ireland” – the RSA probably
I agree with the sentiment, but there’s a frustrating lack of apples-apples comparisons in that article, e.g. comparing Helsinki (zero traffic fatalities) with the whole of Ireland.
According to [2024 stats](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20190410STO36615/road-death-statistics-in-the-eu-infographic) both Finland and Ireland have 32 deaths per million inhabitants.
Faux concern and mealy mouthed platitudes to show that “we” need to do something, making it everyone else’s problem.
Regardless of the problems society faces here, that’s the approach.