{"id":243183510,"date":"2012-09-15T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243183510"},"modified":"2012-09-15T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:58:30","slug":"three-quarters-of-driving-instructors-think-cycle-awareness-should-be-part-of-driving-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243183510","title":{"rendered":"Three-quarters of driving instructors think cycle awareness should be part of driving test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It is my assertion that cycling proficiency should be part of drivers&#8217; ed as it is the parents not schools that teach kids how to cycle and it&#8217;s too easy for parents to undo what schools teach (if schools here teach anything of significance about cycling&#8230; e.g. walk bike in crosswalks&#8230; like that&#8217;s going to be a life long lesson with significant impact on safety over time.)]<br \/>\n******************************************************************************<br \/>\nby Sarah Barth, road.cc<br \/>\nMore than 75 per cent of driving instructors believe that a cycle awareness module should be part of the driving test in Britain.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn the flipside, even more instructors &#8211; 88 per cent &#8211; thought that cyclists should have some sort of training.<br \/>\n&quot;The Government should reintroduce cycling proficiency in schools or at least facilitate partnerships between schools and The National Standards for Cycle Training, which was established as a unified cycle training program to promote road safety,&quot; said Ian McIntosh, CEO of RED.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/66588-three-quarters-driving-instructors-think-cycle-awareness-should-be-part-driving\">https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/66588-three-quarters-driving-instructors-think-cycle-awareness-should-be-part-driving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It is my assertion that cycling proficiency should be part of drivers&#8217; ed as it is the parents not schools that teach kids how to cycle and it&#8217;s too easy for parents to undo what schools teach (if schools here teach anything of significance about cycling&#8230; e.g. walk bike in crosswalks&#8230; like that&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243183510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three-quarters of driving instructors think cycle awareness should be part of driving test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243183510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243183510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243183510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243183510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243183510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243183510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243183510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}