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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Yesss!
As a visually disabled person (I am so totally qualified to drive!)* I can quantify that reflective – and, especially ‘flashing reflectable aids’ are what non-car-users need.One of my mates is a heavy horse afficinionado: he not only has large vehichles before & aft of his wonderful horses – they are all equipped with ’flashing reflectable aids” on their low collar points, arse-ends. and following vehicle-
*I am tested every six months.
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Hebe,
Emma: Hanmer is an excellent idea. I’m aiming for Tekapo this winter: hot pools, ice skating and stars. I really, really want to see the Southern Lights.
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also seen in more southerly regions, including Moeraki, Purakaunui & Dunedin…
(not to mention Bluff! Rakiura! Annnnd Kaimahu… -
Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Aidan,
PA might not be a representative sample, but try asking rellies or workmates about cyclists.
I dont have workmates (writers are solitary insects) but discussions about cyclists
have come up between self & family, neighbours & friends. Some locals dislike the tour-gangs, the groups of cyclists that are offloaded from a van & trailer at the turnoff, and head out to the beach in a pack of 15-20 riders. We had an arrangment with 2 companies that they would put up notices at the turnoff & beach ends – but they stopped doing that last year. 2 of my family dont like the behaviour of large trucks on the Waimate-Kurow route because they tend fill a narrow road, not leaving much room for their kids to ride their bikes back from the bus drop-off points. However, that problem has ceased as one kid has graduated to a car and the other is now picked up from their front gate (rural area.)
All of us who live in rural areas have had problems with cyclists who have no understanding how of heavily-trafficked the roads are but that doesnt make us *hate* cyclists. A lot of us relied on bikes for a substantial part of our lives: I biked from North Beach to Aranui HS for 5 years; for 2 years while working in woollen mills, and then for 3&1/2 years in both central CHCH & on the Coast as a postie… I was knocked off my bike twice in ChCh (leaving me with continuing neck & back problems – no ACC then) but only in the 2nd instance did the car driver get aggro at me (and was quickly quietened by his formidably large passenger who told me he would happily swear I wasnt doing anything wrong.) -
Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Lilith __,
We need less anger and agression on the road, not more.
Tautoko to the max Lilith-
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
That’s a pretty major risk factor, though, and it’s hardly something that applies to all drivers.
True.
But I’d also point out that quite a few people have *"strokes which are not medically confirmed.” If people arnt having yearly check-ups, these will almost certainly be unrecorded. And any brain-damage also unrecorded.*Qualifier: I’ve had a stroke.It was medically confirmed.It wasnt in a part of my brain that affected motor
components. It does seem to have had an effect on my ability to karanga & singing- I’ve got better!(Okay, that's my impression...)
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Not wrong! But that interspecies boundary is very seldomly successfully crossed...
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
the time that was the level of testing, they weren’t.
An e.g = if you'd had a stroke, you certainly were
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
There is a suspicion that they were introduced by American whalers (who were certainly around at that time, and who urm *interacted* with the locals: my greatgrand-dad was almost certainly the result of one such interaction (& his father was, genetically, part-Tahitian)...so: connects!
Motoitoi is the immediate ancestor - she did a kind of Pocohontas act over 'John Miller' - -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
(primly mode) cats & dogs dont interbreed my good man-
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Maz,
Interesting....