Tag: hi vis vest

What do these projects mean in regulating cities?

The video and the later criminal denunciation realized by the municipality against put again in debate the question of “rags” in the city. Two initiatives, presented in the Municipal Council, intend to modify the ordinance that regulates the activity since 1981.

 

One of the projects UNO Santa Fe could have access to was promoted by councilor Sergio, who proposes that the municipality fix a number of qualifying credentials and define the area in which vehicle caregivers can exercise their work.

 

Clarifies that permits will be granted for space where “vehicle parking is allowed” but not in areas where parking is measured; current prohibition but that is not respected in many places in the city.

 

The project proposes that the interested parties have a certificate of good conduct and must go through initial training on traffic, public attention and citizen coexistence. Meanwhile, the municipality must publish on its website the list of the names and surnames of the persons authorized. Every vehicle caretaker must use the reflective vest with two reflective tapes and visibly carry the qualifying credential.

 

The other project that entered the site was presented by Marcela. In line with Basil’s initiative, the editor explained that the mission is to ensure that people who dedicate themselves to this activity are included in the formal labor market in the future.

 

The councilor recalled that in 2010 there were about 300 people, who wore their badge and hi vis vest. However, the legislator said. “there was no political decision to continue with the registration and to know who is on the street asking for this bonus.”

 

It is essential that “territorial disputes be resolved by the municipality and not the people”, with its consequences. “That’s why we have so many fights and fights,” he said. Speaking to the station of LT 10, said it is necessary to “assign days, hours and areas” car care. It also asks that they be duly identified so they can be reported in situations of violence or extortion.

 

As in the Basil project, it proposes that for mass events (Columbus or Union parties) a call be made and that the municipal government, through a lottery, makes a selection, with the particularity of doing so on a rotating basis.

 

For their part, the ruling party was in favor of giving debate in the Council, to accompany and improve initiatives with the aim of improving the current situation. Also, remember that a rule or ordinance will not solve situations of violence or end crime. “They are extortion, property violence and threats, they are all situations in which the police and prosecutors should act,” said Councilman Carlos Suarez.

 

“The municipal regulation by itself, will not solve the problem, we will find that within a few months we can have a municipal ordinance that regulates the activity but the problems we mention do not end, we must be clear with the neighbor” , the legislator pointed out.

Compulsory reflective vests in Ireland

At the beginning of 2014 in Ireland, there will be a regulation that obliges all motorcyclists to ride in a reflective vest both during the day and at night.

In France, it ended with nationwide protests, in which other road users joined. The government withdrew from the idea, offering instead compulsory wearing by the motorcyclists’ reflective wristbands. Now the Irish authorities have made it clear – all motorcyclists will have to wear reflective vests, regardless of their attitude to this piece of clothing. According to the authors of the bill for obliging users of two-wheelers to take care of their own visibility, it aims to reduce the number of fatal accidents involving motorcyclists. Unfortunately, as usual in the case of regulations created by bureaucrats, two facts were not taken into account: the first is the material of which the vests are made – artificial fibers block the airflow and can cause overheating. The second is motorcycle clothing, which is increasingly equipped by the manufacturer with large reflective elements, sometimes covering most of the surface of the body of the rider. So what is the point of putting a vest on a reflective jacket?

Sentences among the interested are divided – some believe that the vest will actually help to see and identify… the goal they are for some drivers. Others argue that not having a hi vis vest will be another pretext to punish their mandates. Once again, a situation is created in which the citizen is to the law and not the right of the citizen. And it’s hard to resist the impression that the issue of compulsory visibility of a motorcyclist is slowly, but inevitably heading in our direction…

Motorcyclists must wear a reflective vest in France

In France, a country that is particularly keen on implementing all safety regulations, a new law will come into force on January 1, according to which every motorcyclist will have to carry his (important: carry with him) a reflective vest. The penalty for non-possession can range from 11 to 100 Euro if the motorcyclist was involved in an accident and did not have such a vest with him. Interestingly, the law does not prescribe to ride in such a vest, but only to have it with you. Does this have nothing to do with security, but only with the enforcement of the EU directive?

 

Another interesting fact: Putting a reflective vest with you will be acceptable, but all other reflective elements – no. Therefore, if, for example, you will have a jacket in a Yellow Fluorescent, while you are in control, but the lack of a hi vis vest in the glove compartment will give you a ticket. The rules apply not only to the French, but also to all motorcyclists. The recipe is already in force in France as far as drivers are concerned, but as of January 1, 2016, it will also include drivers of two-wheelers.

Reflective vests improve the safety of the youngest road users

180 reflective vests went to children from schools in Lemuroid and Sowing Botany. This is the result of the action organized in cooperation with three companies from the Plessey commune

 

The road to school for children who live in Selecta away from the city is not always safe. The youngest inhabitants sometimes have to move along the side of the road, without a road or pavement, only a hi vis vest. It is therefore important to carry out initiatives aimed at improving safety on the way of the youngest inhabitants of our commune. We decided to take this initiative – says Lukasz, the originator of the action.

 

Over 180 reflective safety vests were handed out. Nearly 140 went to pupils from grades I-III from ZSP in kindergarten students, and 45 to preschoolers and pupils from the 1st-3rd grade in Primary School in Sowing Botany. In both institutions, police officers also appeared, who explained to children how to behave on the road, what to avoid.