Several threads recently about road safety stuff. So lets debate how to reduce casualties on the road. Thousands of people killed each year. If anything else killed thousands of people a year there would be an outcry.
What I would do.
1) - make testing much harder
2) - have a graduated licence for car drivers like for motorcycles - and as is done in Australia IIRC. Small engined car, limited to usage.
3) - allow police to do random stops - at the moment they need suspicion, and have far tougher drink driving enforcement. roadblock particular roads and breathalyser everyone
4) mandatory retesting every 5 years and every two years after 75.
5) introduce a continental style "car driver assumed at fault until proven otherwise" in collisions with bikes
6) - 20 mph speed limit in residential areas
7) - proper well thought out cycle facilities - not just a bit of red paint where it is not needed
anything else?
