{"id":148045827,"date":"2009-09-10T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148045827"},"modified":"2009-09-10T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T11:50:27","slug":"toronto-bike-car-incident-serves-as-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148045827","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Bike-Car Incident Serves as Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[In the spirit of the world wide web I&#8217;ll start by providing a little excerpt from Wash Cycle quoting NPR, follow the links for more information.]<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;This change going on on the streets is happening on the fly,&quot; [Noah Budnic of the North American Alliance for Biking and Walking] says. &quot;They&#8217;re learning how to behave differently and drive and bike on streets that are still designed for cars. So there&#8217;s a lot of tension because people are just making it up as they go along.&quot;<br \/>\nRoad rage expert David Weisenthal, a psychologist at Toronto&#8217;s York University, says it&#8217;s that sense of unpredictability, combined with a desire for revenge, that leads to conflicts.<br \/>\n&quot;We know we will never see the other drivers again who are in front of us, in back of us, alongside of us,&quot; Weisenthal says. &quot;We also have a sense of anonymity so that we feel freer to act in what may very often be a nasty manner.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2009\/09\/toronto-bikecar-incident-serves-as-catalyst.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2009\/09\/toronto-bikecar-incident-serves-as-catalyst.html<\/a>oldId.20090910115027842<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[In the spirit of the world wide web I&#8217;ll start by providing a little excerpt from Wash Cycle quoting NPR, follow the links for more information.] &#8230; &quot;This change going on on the streets is happening on the fly,&quot; [Noah Budnic of the North American Alliance for Biking and Walking] says. &quot;They&#8217;re learning how to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=148045827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toronto Bike-Car Incident Serves as Catalyst&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148045827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045827","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=148045827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148045827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148045827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148045827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148045827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}