Bloody regulations

It takes quite a lot to make me angry. In fact my feelings are pretty much in neutral most of the time and the world seems to just go on around me. I read in the weekend papers about the government's latest scheme to lower the national speed limit to 50mph, a move to be co-ordinated with a network of average speed cameras. The aim that is stated is to make the roads safer.
There is a similar scheme afoot to impose a 40mph limit over the Island!
The national scheme seems to me yet another way of making money from motorists, as any traffic camera is designed to do. Euphemistically referred to as safety cameras, they are merely automated money boxes that do precious little to make our roads safer.
Imposing and Islandwide 40mph limit is crazy. People that live here with learn to drive in a 40mph zone, and although there are many that will never drive elsewhere, a lot of people will eventually find themselves on mainland motorways and will have to use the top half of their gearboxes for the first time.
It is people that cause road deaths, many of whom are simply bad drivers. What govenments should be looking to do is to remove those people from the roads. We seem to have several groups of road menaces and at the risk of stereotyping, the main dangers seem to be immigrant drivers with little knowledge of the highway code, boy racers who see themselves as immortal, habitual drink drivers ( and i know a few of those), and the elderly drivers who think that because they have always driven, that they are still safe on the roads. Personally I think that this last group should be offered a free public transport travel pass in exchange for their licence. The others may be more difficult to deal with, but remove them from the road and the traffic density would drop as well as the number of accidents.
Of course what really happens is that everyone gets to pay for the faults of the minority, and I don't suppose for one moment that the imposition of the new limits will change the number of accidents.