Nice Way Code

[Geriatrix]

I hope CTC had no involvement.

Commiserations Scotland.

[[XAP]Bob]

huh?

[Audax67]

SOunds about as wishful as self-regulation by banks.

[Geriatrix]

huh?

Scottish minister for transport Kieth Brown has launched a "Nice Way Code" campaign in response to cycling road safety complaints in Scotland.
http://nicewaycode.com/

At present it is vacuous on action but is filled with enough political hot air to launch a flotilla of balloons.
Any campaign that sets out to stop road users from killing and injuring each other that begins with the word "nice" is self sabotaged. Especially with publicity shots like this:

Standups and satirists up and down Scotland must be phoning their lawyers to complain that the government is stealing their income. It's classic David Brent.

A pathetic play on words on the HW code, and admission that the latter isn't fit for purpose. The HW code at least has some statutory backing, how on earth they think something called nice way code will succeed where the HW code has failed is beyond me.

The picture says it all. Infantile.

[AndyBSG]

huh?

I'm assuming it's some sort of cryptic reference to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23492079

[MartinC]

Yes, you couldn't make it up. I find it hard to articulate what I find so amusing about this, I think it's watching people so ostentatiously tiptoeing round the elephant in the room that it's obvious that the elephant is there.

[reohn2]

Yes, you couldn't make it up. I find it hard to articulate what I find so amusing about this, I think it's watching people so ostentatiously tiptoeing round the elephant in the room that it's obvious that the elephant is there.

Spot on.
What this nation's politrickians will do before doing what should be done I'd find laughable if it weren't so tragic.

[mr bajokoses]

For added realism the publicity shot shows the car well over the give way markings.

How nice is that?

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
And thats the trouble with their views on cycling, they are not cyclist by default of by circumstances either just all posing.
Even the Cycle Show ITV4 is posing, last years program was sheer pants, Boardman and side kick are far more entertaining with some facts too

Edited All that grinning is like our school photos............piles

[Ron]

There is a nicewaycode twitter feed and there was a parody version nicewaycodegb which had more Followers, but now I see the alternative is User Suspended.

[Ron]

There is a nicewaycode twitter feed and there was a parody version nicewaycodegb which had more Followers, but now I see the alternative is User Suspended.

The parody version now back on Twitter as Parody Niceway Code.
Although directed at all road users this campaign appears to be attracting no comment from any user group with the exception of cyclists who have unanimously condemned it.

[gaz]

I hope CTC had no involvement.

http://www.ctc.org.uk/news/nice-way-cod ... s-on-roads

[Geriatrix]

I hope CTC had no involvement.

http://www.ctc.org.uk/news/nice-way-cod ... s-on-roads

Good intentions poor execution. I stick by my earlier observation. Whichever way you look at it, it looks like a script from The Office.

[snibgo]

Some interesting insight into the campaign at http://beyondthekerb.wordpress.com/

They've replaced the shot-own-foot photo with a slightly better one.

Personally, I think the campaign (the original, not the parody) is a nice campaign. Let's all be nice to each other, and make the world a nicer place.

Will they succeed in making us all nicer? If so, will we also be safer? I don't suppose we'll ever know.

[Geriatrix]

Some interesting insight into the campaign at http://beyondthekerb.wordpress.com/

They've replaced the shot-own-foot photo with a slightly better one.

Personally, I think the campaign (the original, not the parody) is a nice campaign. Let's all be nice to each other, and make the world a nicer place.

Will they succeed in making us all nicer? If so, will we also be safer? I don't suppose we'll ever know.

The beyondthekerb blogger owns the parody twitter account and IMO The Car and The Kitten is a high quality piece of writing. The follow up debate in the comments is quality as well.

I have noticed that Edmund King has become involved in the twitter debate. It is apparent that people who should be on the same side are fighting each other which is a waste of energy. Perhaps some good will come of it, but I still cringe when I think of the title.

Edit: Just to add, this is a great example of how a scenario can invert itself. The Car and the Kitten is associated with the parody account and has offered some serious and well thought out arguments, while the real thing looks for all the world like a parody.