Grennan
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actually in SA, this is listed as the biggest killer. ~40% from memory
Story is about Victoria. Good on SA for telling drivers theyre ****. I wish Victoria did it more.
Perhaps you need to be my age to recognise the improvements that have been brought about, and I admit I can only speak for NSW. However, over the forty odd years since 1970, there have been incredible improvements in major and secondary roads that I can recall. The Hume Highway bears little resemblance to what existed when I started driving. Other major highways are improving in large sections each year and there are now freeways where none existed at all back then, so it's fair to say that roads have improved. They just haven't improved enough.
Fair enough, things like new Freeways and the Hume for example have been greatly improved. The new freeway here - Eastlink - I think is a wonderfully safe road.
I can think of a few road projects that have been done here recently, such as the resurfacing of the Monash - I dont think that has had any effect on the road toll, Its just allowed VicRoads to enforce a speed limit of 80 ever since the freeway reopened from Burke Rd onwards and theyve now chucked speed cameras on there and have Highway Patrol hiding along the emergency stopping lanes.
I think most road projects on our arterials have been to add an extra lane to reduce congestion rather than because they were terribly outdated and dangerous.