Month: September 2018

Young Poland is going to school safely

With the start of the school year in 2018/2019 – the nationwide campaign “Safe road to school” has started.

 

This is the fifth edition of the largest educational campaign in the country. Will be conducted in September and October, and during its duration children learn about the principles of safe movement under the roads. They will also receive reflective vests and a colorful lesson plan.

 

Ericka is a trademark of the PSB chain of stores belonging to the Pulaski Group. Let us remind you that last year 53 shops took part in the campaign, in cooperation with 153 educational institutions in Poland.

 

Almost 10,000 children from kindergartens and primary schools had the opportunity to get acquainted with road signs and the basic rules of safe movement on the street; especially when crossing the road on the way to school. After training the kids received reflective elements: key chains, special armbands, high visibility vests which are all made of reflective materials – thanks to which they will be more visible on the road.

 

“This year, we expect an even greater involvement of the PSB network in the educational campaign for children, which will last for September and October. In addition, the children will receive a lesson plan.” says Marlene, spokesman for the PSB Handel SA Group.

 

This is the fifth edition of the “Safe Way to School” campaign, which every year is received with great enthusiasm both by schools, police, parents, and above all by the youngest participants. Its scope is constantly expanding – the action goes to various parts of the country.

How to cycle in a group in Spain

The Spanish traffic service DGT explained in a short video how to cycle in a group on the public road. It is indicated that the cycling of two people is allowed next to each other. Even though it seems that this can cause dangerous situations, it also increases the view of cyclists, which make drivers see cyclists better.

 

The Spanish traffic law indicates that if you drive a group of cyclists on the main road you have to do that in parallel with a maximum of two people next to each other unless there is a lot of traffic and visibility is obstructed, then one has to cycle behind each other .

 

It is allowed to drive two by two on public roads when driving in a group. So keep in mind that there are a lot of traffic that can be dangerous and in places where visibility is obstructed, such as in curvy roads.

 

According to the law, the motorist must always keep a distance of 1.5 meters from the cyclists, which are more difficult when cyclists cycle alongside each other (maximum of 2 people). This ensures that drivers sometimes have to be very patient when it is busy with cyclists and opposing traffic. This can sometimes lead to dangerous situations where it is sometimes more sensible to cycle together in groups and not 2 by 2 next to each other.

 

And cyclists beware, outside the built-up area when driving on the public road one always has to wear a bicycle helmet and have good lighting. In addition, reflective clothing is also a necessary luxury, such as reflective vests. A cycling helmet for adults is not required in urban areas, but it is not compulsory for cyclists younger than 16 years old.

Safe to school – safe home

The start of the new school year requires special attention from all road users. With the kick-off event at the beginning of the school year “Safe to School – Safe Home” in the Wittelsbacher Land, organized by the Roundabout and supported by the Theresa elementary school Friedberg and designed with a great supporting program, all responsible persons made an important contribution to the road safety.

 

School, district administrator, mayor, police, school board, traffic guard, ADAC, parents and savings bank appealed to the special caution, to the protective measures of the children and in particular the motorists were called to the special caution, so the general tenor “the safety of the pupils and students are all dear to our hearts! “. Rector Elisabeth Kern emphasized in her welcome address that this commitment is particularly important and necessary.

 

The importance of the safe way to school Klaus Metzger and Mayor Roland Eichmann, who is still desperately looking for traffic helpers for Friedberg, and also police councilor Ralf Burley from the police headquarters Schwab Nord, because in the first half of 2018 there were more school-leaving accidents in which four children were killed. The school choir enthused in between time and again with his song contributions. After school director Ingrid Hillenbrand welcomed almost 100 first-graders, the schoolchildren were given the protection vests by the guests of honor, which the ADAC Foundation provided.

 

KVW chairman Helmut Beck also appealed to the parents that the ADAC safety vest can only have its protective effect if worn by the children. Wolfgang Pretzel, managing director of the community campaign “Safe to School – Safe Home” thanked EPHK Hubert Schroder from the Ministry of Interior for the organized activities, which represents an important step towards more road safety on the way to school.

 

He also emphasized that no serious traffic accident had to be registered on the crossings and intersections with traffic helpers. In the end, there was a common appeal to all motorists “Always be careful, focused and take special care of the little schoolchildren!”

Safety operation in school transport

The students of the college launched the operation on Tuesday morning.

 

The operation, which will concern the entire department of Lot-et-Garonne, was launched this Tuesday morning at the college.

 

The 6th graders practiced a life-size exercise: evacuation of a bus in a minimum time, and safely, in case of problems.

 

All dressed in the essential yellow reflective vest, they benefited from the advice of the actors of the Prevention Road, in the presence of the officials of the establishment, members of the County Council of Lot-et-Garonne and the Regional Council of New Aquitaine.

 

 

542 participants of the rally

On Sunday, the 1st Cycling Partnership Tychy took place to commemorate the patrons of the cities of Saint Christopher and St. Valentine. At the same time, the rally started the European Week of Sustainable Transport, which ends on September 22. In the event organized by the City of Tychy and the Sports Association NOL-TYCHY, 542 cyclists took part in the patronage of the Metropolis.

 

Tychy is a city that loves sports and outdoor activities, which is why we have been making sure that cyclists feel good in it for many years. Thinking about them, we have created numerous bike paths, bicycle repair stations, and pump track for those who like extreme emotions and challenges. The “Rowe love Tychy” campaign allowed the Tashkent to love two wheels even more, while “Task Rower” gave them an opportunity for unlimited cycling trips around the city, as well as alternative, ecological transport to school or work – President Andrej Dinuba enumerated.

 

The event had its start at Gemini Park Tychy, where participants received starter packages, which included a reflective vest and band, an information bulletin and drinks prepared by sponsors. – Such rallies have their overriding goals, above all the promotion of an alternative means of communication, but also security. Thanks to such events, more people move in reflections, like high visibility vests and helmets with reflective materials which positively affect the safety of road users – emphasized Michal, Councilor of Tychy and organizer of the event.

 

The pleasure of cycling is appreciated by the residents of our city every day, which is especially evident during the annual Family Bike Rally, which this year was organized for the 19th time, and in which 850 people took part. This year, the city of Beirut organizes or co-organizes a record number of bicycle events inviting all lovers of two wheels on its bike routes – added Kristina, the mayor of the town of Beirut.

 

Then, under the escort of the police and the city guard, they moved to the halfway point in Beirut. At the halfway point, concert contests and a meal funded by DANONE were waiting for cyclists. The finish line took place at the Municipal Stadium in Tychy, where cyclists not only could eat a tasty bison and cold non-alcoholic beer but also take part in the free time fairs.

Heroes in safety vests

Safety vests are helpful – but also cool? Some first graders find: no. You should take a look at bikers!

 

Safety vests – are not they a blessing invention? In bright red, reflective green or neon yellow and some reflective materials, they help to make sure road workers are more reliably recognized, and garbage collectors can change the side of the road more calmly. Railway workers are not allowed to go to the tracks without the eye-catcher. There is even severely separated: green is the security service. Red are the ones who are walking. Equally struggling runners look out, scurrying through the woods and meadows dressed in signal colors in the darkness that is now breaking in, in order to catch the attention of road users on the way there. And – little look back at the summer holidays – woe, you get caught on the road in Italy without the airy clothes. For every human, a neon top must be on board. In short, once the warning vest had a little the nastiness of the proletariat, today it is part of everyday life, almost like the house key and wallet.

 

Not everyone will find the safety vest cool

But what did you hear recently at the presentation of the new school plan? If the first graders were initially proud of the vest, which was equipped to start school, “specialists” would leave them home after just a few days. This was reported by the managing director Karl. After all, a real guy did not want to “come out” as a freshman. “I can only confirm that,” says Mayor, father of three school-age boys.

 

So ends the project of the ADAC Foundation, which wanted to set the security action “Accents with foresight”. Father jogs through the village with his vest, his mother rides to work, the offspring make you cool. Since all the dunning helps nothing. But wait, what is it doing around the corner? A chrome-gleaming motorcycle with a rich sound, the handlebars as high as if the stars were to be taken from the sky and with wheels like rubber rollers. The biker wears over the black leather air: a safety vest with reflective tapes. And if that is not a real guy!

Silence, it turns for road safety

Wednesday, the streets of Billonnière were occupied by a shooting for TV Vendee around the wearing of the yellow reflective vest.

 

The initiative

 

“The yellow vest with reflective material protects it, but not everything!” The slogan served as a frame for the filming of elected representatives of the Municipal Youth Council (CMJ). The young counselors wrote the script of four sketches. They will play them themselves.

 

The idea was born last year in the CMJ with social action, during a meeting with the director of the local channel TV Vendee. “We thought why not shoot safety clips designed by the kids themselves? “Tell the supervisors.

 

The prefecture organizing a week dedicated to yellow vests at the end of October, immediately gave its approval. This action of the center of social action, led by Severna, is supervised by Major Laurence of gendarmerie, the representatives of Code Rousseau, Michel and Alain.

 

A message carried by young people

 

The members of the Social Committee are responsible for safety and the TV Vendee team. Laure and Hervey take part in the project. “When ideas come from children, they are better received by young people, they know what they are talking about and have their own experience,” says Major Laurence Lorena.

 

This Wednesday, filming was mostly on small country roads but next week it will be in the heart of the village, with other dangers to know and avoid. “Sainte-Foy represents the small rural communes. This filming could have been done everywhere in France”, supports Michel.

 

At the end of the shooting, after broadcasting for a fortnight at the end of October, a yellow vests discount will be given to all the children enrolled in the commune, in the presence of the gendarmerie, with advice to wear them when they take the bus at middle School.

 

“Teens are balking, but if we give the habit to young children to wear safety clothing, it will become an automatism for them, as today, the seatbelt for motorists. “

Why do you have to dress like a construction manager

Welcome to a world where the orange reflective vest, the sanitary hood and the safety shoe play it “survival solutions” in urban jungle.

 

Three options are available for the podium pillar to prepare for the advent of the post-human – an allegory of an uncertain future that everyone, the baroque demiurge way Alessandro Michele to the minimalist convinced trend JW Anderson, dreads.

 

First: to enter fashion orders and to wander in this very closed circle in a dress of bure and bare-feet of tourism.

 

Secondly, put on his gadget glasses and his amphibian suit, and finally be the trunk on the wings of a cyborg – dragon, chameleon or humanoid with three eyes.

 

Tertio: sign for life in the secondary sector and get the services of the house uniform: parka and pants with reflective tapes, helmet (or hood) and

Safety shoes, all carved in traffic light colors – green, yellow, red and ripe orange.

 

No less doubtful aesthetically but much more prophetically than the DHL t-shirt collective released in 2016, this is the option chosen this season by Simons, anxious to denounce the reign of fake news and prepare for the reign of an all-powerful AI, dresses the woman and man Calvin Klein in a high security uniform, between the construction engineer and the firefighter of New

 

John Galliano at Maison Margiela, Marcia Prada and Christopher Bailey at Burberry apply the same security policy, slipping an orange vest with reflective material under a overcoat, on a mini-dress or changing the parka to a bionic stage, between the garment cosmonaut and sapper, worn with a pencil skirt and sneakers survival blanket.

Lack of teachers, schools without building and classes

For some it has not been easy to separate from their parents in the return to school. This course starts with strikes and protests about the conditions that some teachers and students have had to face at the end of the holiday.

 

With the reflective vest, helmet, and goggles: first day of school in Getafe. “This school, instead of a school is a work,” they say. An unfinished work. Because Miguel de Cervantes, instead of children loaded with school material, workers come loaded with construction material.

 

“We have a dining room that will be saturated because they have not built the new dining room, we do not have a gym because they have not built it, we are missing six classrooms because they have not built all the classrooms,” explains Sara, mayor of Getafe.

 

Some 200 students without a classroom will teach in the hallways. Those of another school in there should have started in April and did it in August. So on one side worker, on the other children. Repeated work material thrown in the yard and children without classroom.

 

In another center, silence: first day of classes without children, they do not start the course because there are no counselors. “Last year the school had a third of students with needs,” say some of the parents.

 

In Cantabria, the children are in the yard because they do not have teachers. They are protesting in front of the Ministry of Education. More than 60% have supported the strike against the partial elimination of the reduced working hours of September and June.

 

In Orense they protest because there are more children in a classroom for children than the 25 allowed. In Alicante at the school, 160 children will begin classes in barracks, which are already two-storey. Education says that it has been invested, but that in four years, it does not give time to everything.

Traffic guard Viersen is supported

For the Viersen with their project “visibility”, the members of the KKV Viersen, Catholics and administration, gather at their events, so that the donation piggy bank in a year contains a sizeable amount.

 

Already in the 15th year, the KKV is active with its social project. The movement program of the traffic guard for the primary school classes was presented by managing director Hans Jansen. It is important for students to wear reflective vests when go out at day or night.

 

For the past 68 years, the Viersen has been working as a traffic safety organization on the goal of “no dead in traffic”. “We start our work at the maternity ward,” says Hans Jansen, Managing Director of the Verkehrswacht, who presented the KKV Viersen, Catholics and administration, with such important work. The club donated five bowls for babies to the General Hospital Viersen so that they could get home safely after the birth. “We have moderators who do parent evenings in kindergartens. Here we show the parents with a children’s belt sled that can happen in an accident or in a dark room, how important reflective clothing is. However, we are also active in schools, for example in cycling education and also for senior citizens, our work is becoming increasingly important. “Each of these target groups is characterized by certain potential hazards, which are to be reduced by means of target group programs.