{"id":162920119,"date":"2010-03-01T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162920119"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:35:19","slug":"jon-stewart-so-called-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162920119","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart so called it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-october-1-2009\/cnn-warns-against-texting-while-driving\">CNN reminds viewers that texting while driving is dangerous and announces their new iPhone application for real-time traffic reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now in real life:<\/p>\n<p>US DOT LaHood: <a href=\"https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/02\/modest-dot-budget-tackles-bold-challenges.html\">we propose &#36;50 million to help the states put an end to distracted driving. I know I&#8217;ve been on a tear about this deadly behavior, but that&#8217;s because it is killing thousands of Americans every year. That sickens me, and we need to help the states educate drivers and encourage enforcement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials&#8217; (AASHTO) <a href=\"https:\/\/news.transportation.org\/press_release.aspx?Action=ViewNews&amp;NewsID=291\">survey of 32 state DOTs finds that 26 states (or 81%) are now using Twitter to communicate with travelers when major traffic incidents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep up the mixed messages America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show: CNN reminds viewers that texting while driving is dangerous and announces their new iPhone application for real-time traffic reports. And now in real life: US DOT LaHood: we propose &#36;50 million to help the states put an end to distracted driving. I know I&#8217;ve been on a tear about this deadly behavior, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162920119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jon Stewart so called it&#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-162920119","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\/162920119","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=162920119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162920119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162920119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162920119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162920119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}