Road safety

There is much to be done to ensure a modicum of safety on our roads. Given the badly lit roads and varying heights of our centre strips and pavements, one very cheap and effective method which would greatly contribute to road safety would be to affix some reflector lights in places where it is difficult to see these traffic hazards in the dark.

Instead, the traffic authority makes the problem worse by planting trees and bushes on these central strips. What is puzzling is that, while those responsible for traffic safety and management must have gone abroad either on holiday or because of the nature of their work, they have failed to learn from their experiences overseas. Affixing reflector lights where they are most needed is not a costly business.

And please, do the traffic authorities not realise that those feeble attempts at landscaping central strips are in themselves causing traffic hazards?

I have driven all over the continent for thousands of miles and only in Malta have central strips been treated as botanical gardens.