{"id":72857,"date":"2011-10-22T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=72857"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:30","slug":"shibuya-illegal-bicycle-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20111022\/blogs\/bicycle\/shibuya-illegal-bicycle-crackdown","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Illegal bicycle crackdown in Shibuya&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to catch the news while driving<br \/>\nSomething about an illegal bicycle crackdown in Shibuya<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1510197_62855908_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Well, bicycles are vehicles after all, so they need to meet minimum safety standards<br \/>\nThey probably don&#8217;t need inspections, but clearer safety standards would be even better<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1510197_62855908_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>What I think is that the lights are way too dim<br \/>\nAt night, a flickering headlight just doesn&#8217;t cut it<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s kind of hard for cars and motorcycles to spot them<br \/>\nA lot of people don&#8217;t have insurance either<br \/>\nSo making it mandatory liability insurance would be really helpful\u2605<br \/>\nMe? What about me?<br \/>\nOf course I have insurance and my lights are brighter than a moped&#8217;s!<br \/>\nBicycle accidents can be pretty serious<br \/>\nSo I thought, let&#8217;s all be careful out there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to catch the news while driving Something about an illegal bicycle crackdown in Shibuya&nbsp; &nbsp;Well, bicycles are vehicles after all, so they need to meet minimum safety standards They probably don&#8217;t need inspections, but clearer safety standards would be even better&nbsp; &nbsp;What I think is that the lights are way too dim At night, a flickering headlight just doesn&#8217;t cut it It&#8217;s kind of hard for cars and motorcycles to spot them A lot of people don&#8217;t have insurance either So making it mandatory liability insurance would be really helpful\u2605 Me? What about me? Of course I have insurance and my lights are brighter than a moped&#8217;s! Bicycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-72857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}