Highway robbery
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,LTHOUGH the Highway Code as now been in existence for 50 ears and every learner is tested n it, many drivers behave as lough they had never heard of . I suspect that it goes in one ye and out of the other, its mesage pausing only long enough D get the candidate through the riving test.
The Royal Commission on .ransport, who in 1929 recomriended the Ministry of Transion to issue a "code of customs or the education and guidance if all road users," believed that t would become universally restected and obeyed. They had eason for their optimism be:ause in those days most road isers were considerate and wellnannered. If the Commission vere sitting today they might be ess sanguine.
They could also not have oreseen that, whereas originally :1 would purchase 240 copies of he code, 50 years later it would )uy only four.