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Notes & CommentsMay 2009 A modest safety proposal On bureaucratic rules & regulations. A few weeks ago, the London Telegraph reported that the British Department of Transport was proposing a strict twenty-mile-an-hour speed limit on “residential roads and near schools.” Quoth a department spokesman: “We are trying to get the balance right between motorists and everyone else and this is a way of reminding local authorities that they have got these powers and they should use them.” We shouldn’t think that local authorities needed much reminding on that score. In Britain, as in the United States, “local authorities” like nothing better than sticking their collective noses into the everyday life of ordinary citizens, chivvying them with ever more intrusive rules and regulations, backed up by the coercive power of the state. In the case of the proposed new speed limits, enforcement will be aided by the ubiquitous surveillance cameras deployed nearly everywhere in Britain at ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 27 May 2009, on page 3 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/A-modest-safety-proposal-4073
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