Road Safety

I like this ad for it’s shameless cheesiness. I’ve been playing with the product too, and it’s pretty good. Though I think its voice to text transcribers struggle a little with my lack of an accent… But there’s one thing in the ad that I really, really don’t like. Can you tell what it is? I’ll...
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Last weekend for Daughter’s birthday treat, we took her and her best friend to Edinburgh Zoo. We drove up on Saturday morning, spent the afternoon running from enclosure to enclosure, and stayed overnight at a nearby hotel. Driving back down the A1 on Sunday morning, the fuel warning light for the car came on, so...
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. . . but he was never the smartest of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. And thankfully, UK drivers stick to the speed limit, according to the Department for Transport’s A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World report: Click through on the graph and download the entire report from...
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This was the soundtrack of my ride today - Out Ta Get Me, from Appetite For Destruction. (The bleeping out on this version of the song is really subtle - even if you’re not a G’NR fan, it’s worth watching for the awesome audio edit ) So, to my ride today - visiting a client...
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It’s taken me a week to get to write this post, as I was hoping to get CCTV footage of what happened. Unfortunately the response from my Freedom Of Information Request was that the camera overlooking the scene was not working. So you’ll have to take my word for this. Last Saturday afternoon, we all...
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Every now and then the local or national papers here will go off on a rant about cyclists with no respect for the law riding on the pavement (sidewalk), terrorising innocent pedestrians. I’m troubled by this, because I think they’ve got a point. No, I have no problem with considerate, just-above-a-walking-pace cycling (which is actually illegal...
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This story was on the front page of the Evening Chronicle yesterday. Basically I’m writing about it here to make a point . . . HE WAS lucky to survive after smashing into a car while riding his bike. But schoolboy Sam Scott was then threatened with legal action for the damage he caused...
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OK, so here’s the Prisoners’ Dilemma: Two guys are arrested on suspicion of being the pair behind an armed bank robbery. The investigating officer is cunning though, and separates them, making each an identical offer: Confess to the robbery, and thus provide the evidence to put your accomplice away for a long stretch, and we can...
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(You’ll have to click through to read the text of today’s Yehuda moon strip) Today on my ride into Newcastle, I had a passenger of a car lean out the window as he passed, shouting something or other (doppler - don’t you love it?), and pointing at his shaven head. He may have been indicating...
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There are actually some great facilities for cycling around here. They connect up useful places that people would want to travel to or from. They have great smooth surfaces, and they’re wide enough for two-way traffic. Almost universally though, they have the stop-start problem: These two examples are from National Cycle Route 72 as it crosses...
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