This was published yesterday: not sure if it's been mentioned here already.
"This week marks the beginning of the Nice Way Code, a government campaign to improve road safety in Scotland by encouraging us all to behave better on the roads.
It’s costing £500,000 and will be led by Scotland’s Transport Minister, Keith Brown. With recent figures from Transport Scotland reporting the deaths of nine cyclists on Scotland’s roads this year so far, and the total number of cyclists killed rising for the fifth year in a row, is it not reasonable to expect more than a few soft words of advice from the minister on the issue of road safety?
I think the time has come for the government to take much tougher action. After all, the government has it in its power to do something far more meaningful and substantive by directing policy and legislative focus..."
Don't read the comments: it's the usual crowd of ranting and frothing about the usual things...
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