In February, pedestrians have to wear reflective
elements like reflective vests. But no one deliberately says what they should
look like, and besides, the shops are full of shit.
You would have to live abroad or on
Mars so that you wouldn't hear about the new pedestrian obligation in the Czech
Republic to wear reflective elements outside the village in low visibility. In
February, it will be published in the Collection of Laws and then will come
into effect in 15 days.
The approval process took so long that
the media, politicians, and policemen rejoiced for months, as it is a good idea
if the measure brings at least one saved life.
The Besipu campaign started in the
fall, half a million reflective
tapes, 100,000
seniors' bags and tens of thousands of luminous laces for the young this year.
Indeed, the number of victims is really worrying, as 72 pedestrians died in the
dark last year. Good experience from abroad, where such an obligation applies
for years, and the number of the dead has really decreased rapidly. Will it
succeed with us?
Do you know retro-reflection?
Unfortunately, the most important
thing in publishing sprawl was to define properly what the "retro-reflective
elements" are and how they should look. "We have, for example,
fluorescent materials that increase daylight and dusk visibility, but lose
their function in the dark," says Besar's head, Martin Farrar. In
addition, we found that not every orange or light green work vest is wearing
true retro-reflective materials - that is, reflecting light in the night
and alerting the character to the dark!
Although transport legislation experts
suspect that the term "retro-reflective" refers to a situation of emergency
stopping of the vehicle outside the municipality or to the permissible marking
of pedestrian formations in low visibility, the implementing regulation depicts
examples of working orange "road" workers and a "School"
sign in both cases, it is hard for the participants to dress up.
In addition, in the passage on their
new designation, this reference is missing. Members have already met it during
the vote. "Retro-reflective materials - it's a very difficult word and I
admit I'm a little confused about it. It is the word of Latin origin. Reflector
means I bend, turn, re - back. How would I translate retro-reflector, I don't
know. I probably turn, bend back, backward. Or I bend back, bending back. I
wonder in whose clever head the term was born," commented MEP and linguist
Daniel Korte of TOP 09. For the sake of order: a term that has been spoken of
expressively has been commonly used for the light reflection principle.
