With more than 90 percent of all roads in Bermuda bordered by private land, upgrading pedestrian crossings and bus stops to include sidewalks and lay-bys is an engineering nightmare.

According to the chairman of the Road Safety Council, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, there are numerous engineering problems and this is just one of them.

Dr. Froncioni said there are currently about 80 pedestrian crossings across the Island and while the layout of each one is being looked at, upgrading pedestrian crossings near, or at, schools has become the number one priority.

But, just as Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown said on Thursday, Dr. Froncioni feels making the necessary changes will take time.

He said even prior to the Tyaisha Cox accident, the Government and Road Safety Council had been examining pedestrian crossings across the Island ? including the one at St. Mary?s Road where Tyaisha was killed ? but with the increase in traffic and the fact that 90 percent of all roads are bordered by private land, this has become an engineering nightmare.

Dr. Froncioni felt that the total lack of regard for traffic regulations in general was a cause for concern.

?It?s easy to blame crashes on dangerous curves, but there are no dangerous curves, just dangerous drivers,? he said.

And Dr. Froncioni believes there are more dangerous drivers on Bermuda?s roads now than ever before.

However, a possible solution might be found in a demerit point system which he hopes will be introduced in Bermuda in the near future.

Dr. Froncioni said similar systems worked elsewhere in the world as a means to take repeat offenders off the road and thus lower the amount of accidents and traffic violations.

On whether or not the Road Traffic Act needed to be upgraded or even replaced as suggested by Dr. Brown, he said he couldn?t agree more, but felt it was a mammoth task to be undertaken by Government and that it would not happen anytime soon.