{"id":131364160,"date":"2009-03-01T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T10:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131364160"},"modified":"2009-03-01T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T10:02:40","slug":"choker-vs-speed-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131364160","title":{"rendered":"Choker vs Speed Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As congestion increases motorists look for alternative routes which often are our cycling routes. But in order for these routes to be a viable shortcut for motorists there is a need to exceed the speed limit which causes issues and concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In order to address these concerns community&#8217;s have been installing chokers which has alarmed a local cycling community as most feel that chokers make roads less bike friendly, additionally chokers are one of the lest effective measure to reduce motorists speed. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkoaklandbikeoakland.org\/downloads\/Choker.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><br \/>\nEffectiveness: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trafficcalming.org\/effectiveness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.trafficcalming.org\/effectiveness.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speed tables (long flat raised surface) on the other hand are effective at keeping speed near the desired limit without any significant discomfort to law abiding motorists or cyclists.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completestreets.org\/images\/PortlandHump.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I am curious how you feel, see poll in the right hand column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As congestion increases motorists look for alternative routes which often are our cycling routes. But in order for these routes to be a viable shortcut for motorists there is a need to exceed the speed limit which causes issues and concerns. In order to address these concerns community&#8217;s have been installing chokers which has alarmed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=131364160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choker vs Speed Table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131364160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131364160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131364160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131364160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131364160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131364160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131364160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}