NRA ‘playing with loaded gun’ on road safety

A SENIOR official with the National Roads Authority was quoted recently as saying driving is “like playing with a loaded gun”. He has also stated that “we are killing seven people a week on Irish roads”.

One could be forgiven for thinking he was referring to his own organisation’s contribution to our appalling road accident figures.

We have poorly marked roads that have a multitude of contradictory signs, road improvements taking place in a piecemeal, haphazard fashion, varying speed limits bearing no relation to the road the motorist is travelling on (alternating from maximum to minimum several times on any short journey, enough to confuse the most attentive driver). What will metrification bring? Another nightmare of an unfinished project for the motorist.