Category:Skid Marks

It makes no cents
December 1, 2012

It makes no cents

Road safety in South Africa is in a shambles, yet it doesn’t get the funds it so desperately needs – and that makes no...

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Keys please, Dad …
November 1, 2012

Keys please, Dad …

Road carnage, e-tolling and incompetent officials – all an unfortunate sign of the times. But stress behind the wheel existed back when “road safety...

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AARTO schmarto
October 1, 2012

AARTO schmarto

With a gun-slingin’ approach to law enforcement and a tendency to break the very laws their jobs are based on, our governmental and law-enforcement...

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Same team, new coach
September 1, 2012

Same team, new coach

Cabinets have been reshuffled and we now have a new transport coach and deputy. Will they get back to basics and take heed of...

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Where IS the road money going?
August 1, 2012

Where IS the road money going?

With the mammoth budgets allocated to provincial roads, one has to ask where it’s going – and why, with energising case studies such as...

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July 1, 2012

What happens when you kill a road?

Roads are the veins and arteries of our economy. When there is no road, no-one can get anywhere or do anything – communities suffer,...

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June 1, 2012

Death traps, anarchy and opportunity

A fatal accident, or a new public transport people-carrier with a five-year service plan, trained driver and tyre-replacement schedule? They have the same price...

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May 1, 2012

“Decade of results”, anyone?

Remember the Decade of Action for Road Safety? The UN resolution proclaiming 2011 to 2020 as the Decade of Action was co-sponsored by more...

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April 1, 2012

The madness comes to a head

The Gauteng tolling issue finally seems to be coming to a head, and where will the madness go then?

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