Friday, December 26, 2008

Banning Motorcycles

The Devil is reporting that some of the Europeans, have come up with what they think of as a swell idea for reducing the roadkill count among their citizenry. It's called "Project Zero", presumably for the eventual yearly fatality count.

Motorbikes should be banned as part of a plan to eliminate road deaths, a safety expert has claimed.

The goal of stopping deaths on the roads has been set by a number of countries including Norway, Australia and Sweden, where the programme has been called “Vision Zero”.

But Norwegian safety expert Rune Elvik said for it to happen, policy makers should consider the radical step of banning motorbikes.

“If they are serious about these lofty road safety ambitions that have been announced then I think such a discussion is needed,” he said in an interview with Motor Cycle News.

“Motorcycling would definitely not be allowed.”
Europe is considered, by the left-leaning Illuminati in this country, to be the future utopia that the US should strive for, with crushing taxes, nanny statism, and a rapidly rising crime rate. Soon, they won't be allowed to go outdoors without a helmet and knee and elbow pads.

2 comments:

Brad K. said...

What a silly concept. Why, with one stroke of the legislative pen, you could eliminate virtually all green, low-carbon-footprint individual transportation. With only a bit of a slip, you could include unicycles and other accident-attractants from public roads - bicycles, motor and pedal tricycles, scooters, and three wheeler trucks.

I wonder of the "No Cycles" folk (NCF) have submitted their "Kyoto Protocol" impact statement (KPIS) to the Energetic Association of Rabid Tree Huggers (EARTH). I can hear their argument, "But taking that secretary off a moped and into a Lincoln Town Car, times five million, might save two or three lives! Well, maybe some day!"

But - what about the countries where driving impaired is a capital offense - doesn't that conflict with the zero deaths on the road goal?

Idiots abound
The world around.

Billll said...

My daughter periodically complains about the generally low quality of the human race. I have to remind her that half of them are below average in intelligence.

As an aside, have you ever noticed that most to the plans to save the earth inconvenience the poor the most? It's almost as though someone wanted them to become extinct.