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Going for walks in hi vis jackets

  • 12-02-2019 9:34am
    #1
    blue note
    Registered Users Posts: 4,501 ✭✭✭


    What's the story with this? I sent for a run last night. I was almost entirely in black and I didn't realise that until I started looking at the people I was running past. There were a decent few walkers wearing hi vis jackets. They were going for a walk, putting on their running gear, and then throwing on a hi vis vest. Then they're walking around a town, with footpaths and streetlights on every road.

    I just wonder why? I drive and have never said thank you to someone in my head for wearing a high vis vest on a footpath. I wasn't going to drive there anyway.

    It's obviously very different if you're in an area without streetlights or footpaths.


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  • #2
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,963 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Perhaps they had been walking from an area that was rural and not well lit to the town or vice versa. Walkers in hi-vis is a good thing.


  • #3
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    blue note wrote: »
    What's the story with this? I sent for a run last night. I was almost entirely in black and I didn't realise that until I started looking at the people I was running past. There were a decent few walkers wearing hi vis jackets. They were going for a walk, putting on their running gear, and then throwing on a hi vis vest. Then they're walking around a town, with footpaths and streetlights on every road.

    I just wonder why? I drive and have never said thank you to someone in my head for wearing a high vis vest on a footpath. I wasn't going to drive there anyway.

    It's obviously very different if you're in an area without streetlights or footpaths.

    Well done to them for being intelligent and smart . I presume they cross the road occasionally


  • #4
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    dont do it myself, but nothing wrong with being cautious


  • #5
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    It's a great idea. Especially in late dusk time and if it's a pissy evening.

    Also why do cars have lights? To see and be seen.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Crossing roads, broken street lights, drivers not paying full attention, cyclists on footpaths, misted car windows, rain reducing visibility. Huge amount of reasons, most of them valid.


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  • #7
    SteM
    Registered Users Posts: 6,523 ✭✭✭SteM


    AH has gotten to the point now where every banal little thing in life has become a question.


  • #8
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Yeah! Stop being safe ya w*nkers!


  • #9
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,957 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The amount of walkers and runners around where I live without hi-vis is shocking.

    And I live in a rural, badly lit area.

    Don't know why someone wouldn't wear a €2 hi-vis top when out and about. Could save your life.


  • #10
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    And when they come to a pedestrian crossing they will walk straight out in front of you.


  • #11
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,497 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    blue note wrote: »
    I just wonder why? I drive and have never said thank you to someone in my head for wearing a high vis vest on a footpath. I wasn't going to drive there anyway.

    You poor thing.

    What if you were out running and you found yourself in a place with no footpaths?

    You'd have to stay there forever.


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  • #12
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    And when they come to a pedestrian crossing they will walk straight out in front of you.

    That's what its for. At that point you put your foot on the pedal in the middle.


  • #13
    oLoonatic
    Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭oLoonatic


    NIMAN wrote: »
    The amount of walkers and runners around where I live without hi-vis is shocking.

    And I live in a rural, badly lit area.

    Don't know why someone wouldn't wear a €2 hi-vis top when out and about. Could save your life.

    You can get them for free on the RSA website delivered to your house, there is no excuse. It particularly irks me when cyclists dont have any hi vis on at night. ( I cycle to and from work myself)


  • #14
    Benny Biscotti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭Benny Biscotti


    blue note wrote: »
    What's the story with this? I sent for a run last night. I was almost entirely in black and I didn't realise that until I started looking at the people I was running past. There were a decent few walkers wearing hi vis jackets. They were going for a walk, putting on their running gear, and then throwing on a hi vis vest. Then they're walking around a town, with footpaths and streetlights on every road.

    I just wonder why? I drive and have never said thank you to someone in my head for wearing a high vis vest on a footpath. I wasn't going to drive there anyway.

    It's obviously very different if you're in an area without streetlights or footpaths.

    This level of intelligence is why the driving standards are so low in this country.


  • #15
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    SteM wrote: »
    AH has gotten to the point now where every banal little thing in life has become a question.

    Why's that?


  • #16
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,862 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    What I find weirder is the parents who put a vizi vest on their kids and then wear black themselves. If it's necessary for the kids it's necessary for the parents.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Some of them even carry torches. Call it consideration for other road users, which shouldn't be a novelty in this day and age.


  • #18
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,862 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    oLoonatic wrote: »
    You can get them for free on the RSA website delivered to your house, there is no excuse. It particularly irks me when cyclists dont have any hi vis on at night. ( I cycle to and from work myself)

    Or the cyclists who put on the vizi vest and then throw on their backpack. Why bother?


  • #19
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,957 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    One worrying thing I have noticed on more than one occasion is this:

    On our main roads here, there is often a large section to the left side of the lane, call it a hard shoulder if you want, but its not an official hard shoulder. I often see cars using it to drive into if the car if front is taking a right turn, which would probably be fine during the daylight hours.

    However, often when I'm driving on these roads at night, you'd pass walkers using this area. But they are practically invisible as they are dressed in dark clothes. Now imagine you are walking in this area and a driver decides to use it to undertake at 50mph!!

    Doesn't bear thinking about.


  • #20
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Runs and walks can take in both rural and urban locales in one outing. On rural roads, high vis jackets are essential, along with torches.


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    It's the yellow vest crowd scoping sh1t out..
    Expect a Paris type situation any day now ..


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  • #22
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,957 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I think it should be against the law to walk on rural roads (or unlit roads) without a hi-viz.

    The amount of cyclists doing the same is also incredible. They seem to favour dark colours from what I've noticed. It might be bright when they leave the house, but its often getting dark when they are still out.

    Many don't often switch on their lights either when they should be.


  • #23
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    You'd wonder how Batman survives.


  • #24
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Can't understand runners on a road local to me choosing the unlit and unpavemented side over the safer side. I guess they're training for the Olympics so they're entitled to it.


  • #25
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    I work near a college campus.

    Large amount of bozos cycling around with no lights on winter evenings and people wearing dark clothes in unlit areas.

    Younger folk who don't yet drive have some sort of crazy "I see the car so the driver must be able to see me" mentality.


  • #26
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    That's what its for. At that point you put your foot on the pedal in the middle.

    You think when you come to a crossing that you just walk straight across and your hi-vis jacket will somehow magic up a shield to stop the traffic:D


  • #27
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    You think when you come to a crossing that you just walk straight across and your hi-vis jacket will somehow magic up a shield to stop the traffic:D

    No, the flashing lights and stripey bit of road should be enough for drivers who are able to keep their eyes on the road. Pedestrians do have the right of way at pedestrian crossings, no matter how many idiots you see ploughing through them at 30 while updating FB.


  • #28
    meeeeh
    Registered Users Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I don't think you need hi vis if you are walking in lit up areas on sidewalks. However I came across idiot runners wearing dark clothing who jumped on the road on badly lit roundabout without stopping and looking if anyone was coming through. That type of an idiot could cause serious accident.

    I don't wear hi vis when going for a walk with the dog or run during the day. At night though I 'm lit up like a Christmas three, hi viz and a torch pointing at the dog if needed. (No publuc lithing or sidewalks). Another must is actually walking on the right side of the road. I came across walker on a narrow enough country road, dressed in black and walking on the wrong side of the road. Luckily enough I spotted some movement in the shadows because there was another car coming towards me and I had to keep to the side of the road. People like that should be beaten up for mindlessly endangering themselves and others.


  • #29
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,862 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    No, the flashing lights and stripey bit of road should be enough for drivers who are able to keep their eyes on the road. Pedestrians do have the right of way at pedestrian crossings, no matter how many idiots you see ploughing through them at 30 while updating FB.

    Pedestrians don't always have right of way. It depends on who enters the junction 1st. If a vehicle is in the junction they have right of way over the pedestrian. If the pedestrian enters the junction 1st they have right of way.

    Pedestrians and car drivers are each as bad at updating social media.


  • #30
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Del2005 wrote: »
    Pedestrians don't always have right of way. It depends on who enters the junction 1st. If a vehicle is in the junction they have right of way over the pedestrian. If the pedestrian enters the junction 1st they have right of way.

    As long as a pedestrian doesn't suddenly veer off and sprint out on to the road, they have the right of way at crossings. I've seen people appear from nowhere and do that but not nearly as often as I've seen drivers go straight through while pretending they can't see anything that's not directly in front of them.
    Del2005 wrote: »
    Pedestrians and car drivers are each as bad at updating social media.

    Even if they are, only one group is behind the wheel of a tonne of metal and fuel.


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  • #31
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,654 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Feisar wrote: »
    It's a great idea. Especially in late dusk time and if it's a pissy evening.

    Also why do cars have lights? To see and be seen.

    Can't overstate that last part enough... the amount of idiots who drive around in bad weather or dusk/dark with no or minimal lights on is ridiculous! Their cars are practically invisible at times - although manufacturers have to share the blame with DRL implementations.. usually the back of the car is completely unlit while the driver sits oblivious thinking their front DRLs (and lit dash?) are grand.


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