Part of my daily commute is by bus. Oh I could walk it- it’s less than a mile but it doesn’t cost anything extra as I have a monthly Oyster card.<\/p>\n
Coming back at night there’s sometimes a 5-10 minute wait and a lot of slow moving traffic past the bus stop at Leyton tube. So I play Seatbelt football and count the score. How many drivers wear a seatbelt, how many don’t. Last friday the score reached an amzing 17:17. Yup, 1 in every 2 drivers was without a seatbelt. Yesterday it was 13:5 (thats 5 without). It amazes me that 23 years after this became compulsory (1983) so many still risk it.<\/p>\n
I’ve noticed though that the drivers who flash buses out seem to be in the ranks of the unbelted. I wonder if this is because the belt wearers tend to drive faster and so are more likely to overtake than brake and flash – that old chestnut risk compensation<\/a> theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of my daily commute is by bus. Oh I could walk it- it’s less than a mile but it doesn’t cost anything extra as I have a monthly Oyster card. Coming back at night there’s sometimes a 5-10 minute wait and a lot of slow moving traffic past the bus stop at Leyton tube. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}