The traffic “blitz”
Sir, — There is little doubt that the road toll will continue to increase despite the current penalties for driving offences — the most punitive in the history of motoring. There is no readymade, magic solution to the problem, but experience in ■life teaches that when one course of action demonstrably and continually fails to achieve its purpose, it is time to try another. Behavioural psychologists have shown beyond all doubt that the most effective way of motivating people is by reward, as distinct from punishment. Our legislators are therefore wasting their efforts, and our money, without adequate return. Moves such as the traffic “blitz” only achieve, in the long term, a greater polarisation of the motoring public and the enforcement agency. The results of the prohibition era in the United States should be example enough of the evils of that situation. — Yours, etc., “FIAT JUSTITIA”. October 12. 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33355, 13 October 1973, Page 14
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