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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Would harsher fines really change driver behaviour?
Description: Isn’t it weird that, in the past 25 years, we have spent millions and millions and millions of dollars on road safety campaigns, but there have, generally, been no changes in that time to the penalties handed out for bad and dangerous driving? I tried to find out exactly how much has been spent, but I realised that was quite ambitious. Nevertheless, I can safely say that it’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, ChatGPT reckons it’s somewhere between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion. It’s probably way more than that. ...