Road Deaths In Ireland by John Kavanagh

Again the road death rises, two people killed on Wicklow roads (23/04/07), bad roads possibly the primary cause.

We have politicians that are doing all in their power to win votes in elections with promises of transport infrastructure improvement, and yet nothing is done.

The road system in Ireland is a disaster; you have partial motorways partially linking the major cities, we have national roads that go straight through the centre of towns, we have rural roads with no road signs. Hitler was an evil man but he did have one great idea and that was to create a transport infrastructure, If only our short term thinking Politicians could do the same. Now our politicians will tell you that they are getting there and maybe they are but the Germans got there in the 1940’s nearly seventy years ago. The infrastructure that being built in this country is already twenty years out of date, you only have to look at the M50 around Dublin, when it was finished it was already reaching maximum capacity, only in the last year (2006) did they realize that something had to be done to alleviate the congestion.

These same politicians have been making the same promises for the last twenty years, how can we be so gullible and put them back in power. Ask your politicians if we need this carnage on our roads and what is really being done to prevent our young people from being killed. If enough of us put the pressure on we will make a difference.

About The Author

John Kavanagh

After years of sitting on the fence watching the problems of this country pass me by I've decided to do something, thats why I want to show the views of the one individual. I am new to writing and hope to make something of a success of it. Originally from Bray, Co.Wicklow I moved to Oxford in 1989 and lived there for ten years. I returned in 1999 and have not regretted it. For other rants visit my blog on http://jonnerzblog.blogspot.com