Kate Hawkesby: Road to Zero looks to be a Highway to Nowhere

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 23, 2022 · 3m

Road to Zero looks to be the highway to nowhere we all thought it would be.

Another measure the Government has not delivered on, another piece of ideology that’s proven completely unworkable in the real world.

We learn now, that three years into the Road to Zero campaign, we have exactly the same number of road deaths as when we started – in fact we are heading backwards in terms of how bad the road toll is.

So what has it achieved? Nothing.

It’s mental health beds and child poverty and housing and healthcare all over again. A lot of talk, not a lot of action. It’s sadly what we have come to…