Malcolm Evans – tolerable death

Malcolm Evans – tolerable death

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Today both psycho Milt and I were talking about how dangerous our NZ roads are.
Then I signed off to turn on today’s news to find 9 people died today on our roads as the worst number since 2005 so I am now in total shock as we me and psycho Milt were talking together people were dying on our roads.
So now we need the speed on our single lane roads lowered now before others get to be another statistic.
Hastings District Council has lowered all local roads outside the city to 80kms last year and now the death rate is lowered to half of what it was when it was 100 kms.
We hope now NZTA swiftly move to do the same all over the country as single lane roads should not be 100kms and only motorways outside the city boundaries should be 100kms.
To think that it was just a year and a half ago the truck road transport industry was seeking that the speed be raised to 110 kms. What planet do they come from?
Lower the road speed NZTA.