On 5 Mar 2004 13:12:20 -0800,
[email protected] (Michael
Green) wrote in message
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[email protected]>:
>> Does anyone have a copy of this book that they want to sell ?
>OK you got me... what's it about?
It is a an interesting and well-researched (if slightly polemical) investigation
of the road safety lobby, and the way in which they have managed to portray
roads as safer because they are now so dangerous that the vulnerable are too
scared to use them.
The thesis of the book is essentially that much road safety policy is based
on measuring the wrong things. So for example, a road which is so dangerous
as to deter pedestrians entirely has a good safety record, while a road
which encourages pedestrians and suffers a higher casualty rate as a result
is seen as bad.
--
Guy
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