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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is it time to bring back traffic cops?
Description: We’re going to be doing a fair bit of driving over the next few days, and how many cops do you think we’ll see on patrol? I’ll say not many - if any. Which is kind of what the Ministry of Transport’s Bryan Sherritt was saying when he spoke earlier this morning about the road toll going up, when it should be going down. The latest Road to Zero monitoring report says there were 320 road deaths last year and 2,323 serious injuries. This is up from 318 deaths and 2,175 serious injuries the year before.<...