{"id":15692,"date":"2022-04-05T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=15692"},"modified":"2022-04-06T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:16:00","slug":"keeping-canadas-backbone-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/keeping-canadas-backbone-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Canada\u2019s Backbone Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>CARSP in the news\u2026.<\/h4>\n<p>With transportation an essential part of Canada\u2019s economy, more needs to be done to address key issues impeding worker safety in the road and rail sectors. In a country as vast as Canada, driving is essential. And recent events such as the pandemic have proven how critical our country\u2019s drivers are. As such, driving and road safety is paramount. A number of issues plague the sector, however \u2013 among them, speeding. \u201cVehicles are still designed to speed; most vehicles can go speeds much faster than any posted speed limit in Canada. So the question is why? If road safety really is a priority, then why is [speeding] allowed to happen?\u201d asks Raheem Dilgir, president of TranSafe Consulting. Dilgir is also president of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP).<\/p>\n<p>Interested in reading more? Find the full news article <a href=\"https:\/\/premium.thesafetymag.com\/ca-sectorfocus-keepingcanadasbackbonesafe\/p\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARSP in the news\u2026. With transportation an essential part of Canada\u2019s economy, more needs to be done to address key issues impeding worker safety in the road and rail sectors. In a country as vast as Canada, driving is essential&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsp-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15702,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}