Anyway, I digress. All this talk about the dangerous condition of the roads today got me to thinking about another political pensioner, Liz O'Donnell and how her recent "Road Safety" campaign targetting bad driving habits and how it pisses me off big time because none of these campaigners address what, in my opinion, is a major factor in road safety, and that is the state of the road maintenance. I drove trucks all over this country for years but never can I remember the roads being in such a poor state of maintenance. Examples are, non existent road markings, damaged and misaligned road signs, signs hidden in roadside bushes and trees, traffic lights not working, roadside lighting out for years, potholes not repaired, mud and slurry from building sites (an offence, if memory serves me) and other things that don't readily come to mind but which should be part of day to day routines in road maintenance. These things can all have a bearing on road safety and it struck me that no suggestions have ever been put forward on the cause of the recent spate of horrific fatal accidents involving single vehicles. The suspicion of drink, drugs, speed, etc is always left hanging but the result of investigations is rarely disclosed, unless there are court proceedings. I suggest, all the things I have mentioned could equally be a cause.
