Talking about your town

We're watching your speed. Are you?

With police and speed cameras ever present on our roads, it's like there's a cop in every car keeping constant eye on your speed. More police. More cameras.

Stopping distances

Reaction distance is the distance you travel between seeing a problem and hitting the brakes. If you’re not distracted you’ll react in 1.5 seconds. if you’re doing 60km/h, you’ll still travel 25 metres in the time it takes for the message to get from your brain to your foot.

Braking distance is the number of metres you travel between hitting the brakes and coming to a complete stop. You’ll cover another 20 metres before this happens, assuming you’re driving on a dry road, in a newer car with good tyres and brakes.

Stopping distance is the distance when you add your reaction distance to your braking distance. If you’re doing 60km/h, you should come with 45 metres. If you are

Working language

A working language (also procedural language) is a language that is given a unique legal status in a supranational company, society, state or other body or organization as its primary means of communication. It is primarily the language of the daily correspondence and conversation, since the organization usually has members with various differing language backgrounds.

Most international organizations have working languages for their bodies. For a given organization, a working language may or may not also be an official language.[clarification needed]