Yes, that’s what pr companies are for. State agencies use them all the time for the same reason.
Good?
Much of the RSA’s function depends on its ability to both get its message across and present that message as credible.
If they felt there was an issue in that regard, I’d be more alarmed if they were burying their head in the sand and refusing professional assistance. PR firms are there for a reason.
Did they have an issue with reputational damage? I would have thought allot of what they can do is soft power like the road safety ads ect .
Have they thought about giving more money to portwest?
That seems to be their answer to everything else.
Are the RSA not effectively a PR agency themselves?
They don’t set policy, just report stats and make emotional ads to tell people how dangerous roads are?
Being slightly facetious I know, but what do they really do, or what purpose do they fill? Seems a needless quango?
The RSA needs a complete restructure at this stage, it has become just another bloated Quango that has lost sight of its original mandate.
So many examples but the one that, particularly, gripes me is the RSA is often pontificating that they want to improve road safety through driver education.
Yet the RSA is happy to hide this “educational” material behind a paywall, charging €21 to €41 for rules the road and driver theory revision material.
I passed my test 20 years ago, and the rules of the road have changed so many times since then, its hard to keep up, but I’m still not paying €40 for a time limited subscription.
A nice mix of Self Righteousness, Self Importance and Greed. Typically Irish.
Accidentally the owner of the PR firm is related to one of the bosses at RSA ?
What a bunch of shams.. can’t even mange the road safety infrastructure
The RSA are a joke and more of a political lobby group. They just repeat whatever the politicians ask for. They are about to half the speed limits nationwide, but if they had any engineers working for them they’d know changing a sign does fuck all for speed. I’m a roads engineer and we all know you will now have half the traffic doing 50 and half doing the usual 100 on a lot of roads. It’s going to be mayhem and very, very dangerous.
They should put more money into their website. It’s a shit show.
Wasting money on pr instead of something that might do something useful
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Yes, that’s what pr companies are for. State agencies use them all the time for the same reason.
Good?
Much of the RSA’s function depends on its ability to both get its message across and present that message as credible.
If they felt there was an issue in that regard, I’d be more alarmed if they were burying their head in the sand and refusing professional assistance. PR firms are there for a reason.
Did they have an issue with reputational damage? I would have thought allot of what they can do is soft power like the road safety ads ect .
Have they thought about giving more money to portwest?
That seems to be their answer to everything else.
Are the RSA not effectively a PR agency themselves?
They don’t set policy, just report stats and make emotional ads to tell people how dangerous roads are?
Being slightly facetious I know, but what do they really do, or what purpose do they fill? Seems a needless quango?
The RSA needs a complete restructure at this stage, it has become just another bloated Quango that has lost sight of its original mandate.
So many examples but the one that, particularly, gripes me is the RSA is often pontificating that they want to improve road safety through driver education.
Yet the RSA is happy to hide this “educational” material behind a paywall, charging €21 to €41 for rules the road and driver theory revision material.
I passed my test 20 years ago, and the rules of the road have changed so many times since then, its hard to keep up, but I’m still not paying €40 for a time limited subscription.
A nice mix of Self Righteousness, Self Importance and Greed. Typically Irish.
Accidentally the owner of the PR firm is related to one of the bosses at RSA ?
What a bunch of shams.. can’t even mange the road safety infrastructure
The RSA are a joke and more of a political lobby group. They just repeat whatever the politicians ask for. They are about to half the speed limits nationwide, but if they had any engineers working for them they’d know changing a sign does fuck all for speed. I’m a roads engineer and we all know you will now have half the traffic doing 50 and half doing the usual 100 on a lot of roads. It’s going to be mayhem and very, very dangerous.
They should put more money into their website. It’s a shit show.
Wasting money on pr instead of something that might do something useful