tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31552369.post115449952743293814..comments2023-11-05T13:45:44.033+01:00Comments on Praguetory: Czech Road Safety - A Lesson For The UK!Praguetoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520923731691837948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31552369.post-1154734604419361532006-08-05T01:36:00.000+02:002006-08-05T01:36:00.000+02:00TJ - Thanks for the extra detail. I'm making a few...TJ - Thanks for the extra detail. I'm making a few assumptions in my post (I'm not that weel informed being new to Czech) - the long and short is that I feel a lot more comfortable about driving in Czech now than I did in 2002. I hope the improvement sticks but we were going from a pretty low base so I am quite optimistic. Come back again TJ,Praguetoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520923731691837948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31552369.post-1154533128374057722006-08-02T17:38:00.000+02:002006-08-02T17:38:00.000+02:00Just a couple of remarks - the law changed the tra...Just a couple of remarks - the law changed the transportation and made a difference between road safety now and then. More lives saved and more carefull drivers. The question is - how long can that prevail and do we have to take all the negatives that go with the law? New rules (far more strict) opened up a huge space for corruption since the number of negative points is limited. Needless to say, the Czech Police (and especially the transportation police) is a synonymum of corruption. The other thing is that the state of government maintained comunications is horrible which applies for the traffic signs as well - creating a lot of confusion. And third of all, majority of numbers favorably changed because of the fact that the new law changed the rules for statistics (for example the old law requested you to report accidents with damage caused over CZK 20 000, now its more than CZ 50 000 - that explains well the 27% decrease in number of accidents). Nice blog btw.Tomáš Jirsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774267605102470461noreply@blogger.com