2006 Nov 08 - Wed

Over Abundance of Vehicles in Bermuda

According to Bermuda Online, Bermuda has almost 21 square miles of land-mass and as of 2005, 3301 permanent residents per square mile. And that figure, by it's very definition, excludes Expats living on the island. I think another 10% or 20% could be added on as a rough figure.

With more people there are more cars. Many in Bermuda believe that the number of cars on the island is getting out of control. Hamilton, Bermuda does indeed have it's rush hours, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. And due to it's unique geography, commuters into Hamilton from the West end get to suffer the bottleneck of one road into Hamilton. There are suggestions that Expats be denied the privilege of owning/driving a four wheeled vehicle.

There was another article quite recently regarding the interesting statistic that the Warrants Backlog Nears 10,000 and they indicated that many of those are automobile related.

So... when you put those two facts side by side, I think it is possible to come up with some easy to digest, even-handed solutions. For instance, if the outstanding warrants could be tracked, and the guilty parties assigned heavy penalties, such as, say, revocation of driver's license or vehicle license, might that not help alleviate some of the problems of vehicular congestion?