It is not and never will be about safety. It's about controlling the masses. If they really gave a damn about safety there wouldn't be standing water everywhere on rainy days & hilo drivers would be getting time off for all the stupidity I see from some drivers, a minority of them, on a daily basis. Like near misses with pedestrains, lifting and dropping turntables, hitting parked and moving maintence vehicles and dropping quadrupal stacked racks of steel.