I have no problem with pedestrians crossing roads. I think in general its stupid to require only crossing at marked crossings. The problem is the general stupidity of our pedestrians.

Do they really think this will stop the speedsters who currently break the 60kph speed limit with apparent impunity? These are primarily minibuses, tow-truck drivers (who do some of the most reckless manoeuvres around in their race to accident sites), drunk drivers (especially youths in Golfs!), and also sports car and other fancy car drivers who think they own the road. The other factor is that I read somewhere that some 50% of pedestrians killed were drunk - it's not safe to drink and walk either! All this 39kph measure will do is slow up careful, law-abiding drivers and increase our fuel consumption!

I honestly feel that we are all to blame for the current mayhem on our roads, parents should educate themselves and in turn educate their children about road safety. The authorities should definitely do much more to bring the rules of the road to the masses. Learners and drivers test centres simply do not cover all the rules that apply to all road users. Another application for our cellular base stations could be to control vehicle speeds in their coverage area by having compulsary automatic cruise control fitted to all vehicles. The authorities are using them (cellular base stations and cellphones) to track offenders at the moment anyway. I suppose this would pose too much of a threat to their future employment if forwarded to parliament and passed as legislature. I am amazed that no other country has fully implemented such a system. This would take the responsibility of controlling (which seems impossible for some drivers to do AT LEAST most of the time) their vehicle's speed. Now here is something for the AA to rave about. Have such a system operate similar to cruise control with the only difference of having the maximum speed set by a central control tower /s linked to cellular base stations. They are willing to fork out lots of money to bring television and entertainment to the masses by rolling out digital set-top receivers, why not use technology to save more lives on our roads. New vehicles could have the control units installed at the factory which would make implimentation even easier. It's time for the people to think of anything that can save lives and make their roads safer for all users (THEM).

The question now would be, are we going to be disciminated at by politicians in their so called blue light convoys? I feel whats good for the goose is good for the gender.The should also be allowed to travel at 30km ph. Why are they better then we.

This is very easy. The department of transport wants to generate more revanue, why dont they just put visible cameras. I for one wouldnt speed in areas I know there are cameras.

The thinking here is that 'they' will tolerate 60kmph, so set the limit at 30kmph, as many do go twice as fast! Why does this have to a project? Just get the cops to do a decent days work, and hey presto! we will have money in the coffers and, sooner than later, safe neighbourhoods! Someone's trying to make some contract money here and has convinced the Municipality a project is the way to go - if it can raise the funds. Shame on you, AA, for supporting this - now come out blazing at our cops, who are serial failures! 'safety studies', 'Millennium Development Goal', 'experts', 'European Union', 'Britain', 'road safety strategy' and every other motivation in the article mean nothing, since the cops have not had the will to enforce legislation. Even if some cops are fired and the saved salaries are used to fund this project, no lasting good will come of it. We had a 'NTN' (no taxi noise) mayoral initiative here in Durban, and it worked! For 22.3456hrs! (A1-style timing).

Maybe if idiots wouldn't run over the highway then there would be less pedestrian deaths. It's illegal anyway but the traffic department never enforces the law on highway pedestrians.

Please also educate people wearing dark clothes not to walk in the middle of unlit streets. I hate to think how many I have come close to hitting.

Penalise the pedaestrians! For some reason many paedistrians dont know that they are only supposed to cross a road at an official crossing and then only when the correct light shows. ie. green man for paedastrian. The reason we have so many paedastrian fatalities in this country are because most paedastrians dont have good depth perception, and are colour blind (or dont know what red and green means). They don't have this is most developed countries.I have had one walk into my car as I turned left at a robot, when it was clearly red for him as he had his chance to cross before it was my turn. Some even do a toyi toyi dance as they prance across the road infront of heavy traffic. I saw one bounce off a bus doing this. Doesnt it amaze you to see them not crossing when there is no traffic and then decide to cross when the cars start coming. One wonders if the fatalities are part of evolution. I agree that speeds should be reduced in heavy paedastrian areas but paedastrians need to be fined or even jailed for posing a risk to drivers and passengers, both physical and psychological.

This stupid idea will exarcebate the problem of traffic congestion. Visible policing is what we need