Margaret Calvert recently turned 88 years old - along with Jock Kinneir she is the graphic designer responsible for the UK's distinctive #GraphicDesign and #dynamic_typography
of road signs introduced in the 1960s, which is one of the few things this country can still be proud of (the signs are easy to read from a distance even at night).
The font of the gov.uk website is also the same one from the road signs..
I love it when you sit in the rain for 3 minutes, obediently waiting for a walk signal, only to have some jerk who just showed up plow through the crosswalk right when the light changes like it's his god given right.
The fight to #BanRTOR may literally be the hill I die on. When drivers are sometimes allowed to turn right on red, then they will always assume they can turn right on red, regardless of any other cues in their environment.
Someone in the village must have got a fat fine or even a ban for #speeding - the local speedwatch sign has been destroyed - even though the electronic "SLOW DOWN" sign cannot result in a charge even if it contains a camera (some do!) -All that happens is after repeated hits the registration mark is put on a list, driver gets a warning and the list sent to #Suffolk Constabulary (so they would have to be repeat offenders to actually get a ticket) #RoadSafety
School pick up and drop off time is always terrible in terms of traffic congestion and bad parking. Parents often fit their jobs around these points in the day, but we as a nation have to do better on this front in terms of #AirPollution and #RoadSafety.
Saw this today outside my kid’s school.
Alt Text: Truck wedged bumper to bumper in the ‘Car Club’ space reserved for the tiny electric car club vehicles.
If drivers don’t care about rules outside schools anymore, where do they care?
'“We need to ensure that every child can walk or cycle to school safely”: All political parties – except the Conservatives – agree “children’s safety should be prioritised over the convenience of motorists” on “red-rated” road network, families say'
Four and a half hours at work, and just about to reach one hundred speeding tickets. Not that anyone cares about speed limits (clearly!) or this Kindergarten.
In the RSA's road fatality reporting there is little to deal with causes. We are given a breakdown by victim type. We know most accidents and loss of control are caused by excessive speed, drink and drugs. We aren't even given a breakdown of vehicles involved. Blame, which absolutely exists, is never given.
Work (hellmazon) is telling us that solar eclipses are nothing new, and that even though our delivery area is entirely within the totality path, no extra traffic congestion or road hazard are anticipated and routes are continuing as normal. Just wear sunscreen and drive carefully.
After the state has started imposing travel and road restrictions due to the expected traffic volume and number of distracted idiots.
I've been up for 2 hours. I already want to go to bed.
No disrespect to people killed or disrupted by falling bridges, but it would be nice to get even a tenth of that attention on road safety, the lack of which kills more than a million people globally each year, including 40k Americans, and injures many times more - a number that is going up when it should go down.
Rishi Sunak’s report finds #LowTraffic Neighbourhoods work and are popular
Exclusive: Downing Street initially buried study, which Tories had hoped would strengthen arguments against traffic-reducing measures
Municipalities are spending millions to correct decades of road building decisions that put cyclists, pedestrians and other non-car users at risk. Good!
Now we must change the antiquated mindsets inside the road building departments of Ministries of Transportation.
It should not be possible to “run down" someone on a provincial highway.
When you fight for bike lanes in your town and read about fights in other towns, you quickly find that the same arguments come up again and again. Some of them are silly, some serious. I think this is the best and most substantive article I've read about the three most common political arguments against bike lanes (ignoring the "but they run stop signs" one). Well worth your time. https://www.tvo.org/article/debunking-three-big-myths-about-bike-lanes#BikeTooter#RoadSafety
Today's example: town crew is installing a new ped crossing on a sidewalk on our route to school (yay!), but they've had to rip up the existing crossing to do so (ok, makes sense), and the detour they've provided adds more than a 1/4 mile to our route, and requires us to use 3 beg buttons to cross 15 lanes of arterial traffic (wha???).
Wisconsin bill would require ignition interlock device for all drunken drivers (www.wpr.org)
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