{"id":2409,"date":"2013-04-06T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2013-04-06T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:04:58","slug":"promote-hi-viz-but-not-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Promote Hi-Viz, but not like this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What&#8217;s depressing about well-meaning taxpayer-funded initiatives like this is the total lack of understanding of the most simple, basic concepts of risk by those who should know better!<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz\/assets\/Our-council\/Downloads\/LN-328-6Apr13.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2410\" title=\"'Live Nelson' 2013-Apr 6\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"Yet Another Misguided Hi-Viz Promotion\" width=\"477\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-1.png 477w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-1-127x150.png 127w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-1-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_2410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 487px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Yet Another Misguided Hi-Viz Promotion (PDF, 1.8Mb)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In sharing the road with motorists, where is the risk to cyclists being created? \u00a0From the motor vehicles, of course. \u00a0So who should we educate and nag? \u00a0Yes, well done. \u00a0Those wielding over-powered heavy fast-moving metal objects.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;ve got funding for road safety measures, let&#8217;s improve driver standards by\u00a0promotional campaigns, better driver training, lower speed limits, ongoing skills tests, higher enforcement before blaming the victims of poor driving.<\/p>\n<h3>For a real road-safety improvement measure, how about random stopping of motorists to test how good they are at spotting cyclists&#8217; lights from a distance!?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s depressing about well-meaning taxpayer-funded initiatives like this is the total lack of understanding of the most simple, basic concepts of risk by those who should know better! Yet Another Misguided Hi-Viz Promotion (PDF, 1.8Mb) &nbsp; In sharing the road with motorists, where is the risk to cyclists being created? \u00a0From the motor vehicles, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,5,18,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}