{"id":21283,"date":"2014-10-10T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=21283"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:44:05","slug":"bright-yellow-bus-boosts-guide-dogs-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/bright-yellow-bus-boosts-guide-dogs-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Bright yellow bus helps Guide Dogs campaign reach Downing Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bright yellow bus visited Cardiff to help national charity Guide Dogs rev up their campaign to install audio visual (AV) technology on buses.<\/p>\n<p>AV technology would see bus stops announced, so blind and partially sighted passengers could depart confidently.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NOLOGO_1_yellowbus_big_JG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21505\" alt=\"The Guide Dogs Cymru team with their bright yellow bus at Cardiff Bay's Millennium Centre. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NOLOGO_1_yellowbus_big_JG.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guide Dogs Cymru team with their bright yellow bus at Cardiff Bay&#8217;s Millennium Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The vehicle visited the city centre and Bay from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September, providing a place to meet Guide Dogs Cymru and sign the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Over 9,900 signatures were delivered to Downing Street on 2 October,\u00a01,050 of these<b>\u00a0<\/b>collected in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Guide Dogs Cymru engagement officer, Nathan Foy, 34, said: \u201cI\u2019m blind, and if a driver forgets to announce my stop, I could end up 100<b>\u00a0<\/b>yards down the road from my destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my two-year-old daughter asks: \u2018Daddy, where are we?\u2019, \u00a0I can&#8217;t answer that.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide Dogs charity use quirky vehicle to boost campaign for better mobility on buses for the blind and partially sighted  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3592,3590,3593,3591],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - 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