{"id":35198,"date":"2026-03-20T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35198"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:09:59","slug":"which-works-better-the-carrot-or-the-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35198","title":{"rendered":"Which works better: the carrot or the stick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026032001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMovable speed indicators have been in Abingdon for nearly two years, but this is the first time I\u2019ve seen one working so close to a long-standing speed camera. This is on Audlett Drive in Abingdon, where the limit has recently changed from 40 mph to 30 mph.<\/p>\n<p>While I watched for a couple of minutes, all the cars were at or under the 30 mph limit. <\/p>\n<p>Which works better: the carrot or the stick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movable speed indicators have been in Abingdon for nearly two years, but this is the first time I\u2019ve seen one working so close to a long-standing speed camera. This is on Audlett Drive in Abingdon, where the limit has recently changed from 40 mph to 30 mph. While I watched for a couple of minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}