{"id":171224745,"date":"2010-06-05T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=171224745"},"modified":"2010-06-05T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:25:45","slug":"road-diets-in-seattle-two-dozen-since-1972-proven-effective-on-several-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=171224745","title":{"rendered":"Road diets in Seattle- two dozen since 1972, proven effective on several fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Note a road diet is taking 4 lane road and making a center turn lane, two travel lanes and two bike lanes.]<br \/>\n****************************************************<br \/>\nBy David Hiller<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nAs of April 2010 Seattle has implemented two-dozen road diets. The first were done in 1972 on California Ave SW and N 45th St. Since then, study after study has shown that road diets result in lower speeds, increased bicycling and walking, and fewer injuries and deaths, all while maintaining vehicle capacity. It\u2019s what one would call a \u201cwin, win, win.\u201d<br \/>\nSUCCESS ON STONE WAY<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nData collected by SDOT on Stone Way shows:<br \/>\n    * \u2022 Motor vehicles now traveling at speeds closer to the posted 30 mph limit.<br \/>\n    * \u2022 A decline of more than 80 percent in those going faster than 40 mph.<br \/>\n    * \u2022 The changes made to the street lowered total all collisions by 14 percent and pedestrian collisions by 80 percent.<br \/>\n    * \u2022 Motor vehicle traffic volume decreased 6% on the corridor over the study period. This might lead one to believe that the project increased traffic on adjacent streets as people changed routes to avoid delays, but traffic decreased more on adjacent streets than it did on Stone Way N itself.<br \/>\n    * \u2022 Bike traffic \u2013 the stuff we care about \u2013 increased 35% over the period and represents 15% of the peak hour volume.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cascade.org\/2010\/05\/nickerson-street-or-%E2%80%9Chere-we-go-again%E2%80%9D\/\">https:\/\/blog.cascade.org\/2010\/05\/nickerson-street-or-%E2%80%9Chere-we-go-again%E2%80%9D\/<\/a>oldId.20100605182545236<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Note a road diet is taking 4 lane road and making a center turn lane, two travel lanes and two bike lanes.] **************************************************** By David Hiller &#8230;. As of April 2010 Seattle has implemented two-dozen road diets. The first were done in 1972 on California Ave SW and N 45th St. Since then, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=171224745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Road diets in Seattle- two dozen since 1972, proven effective on several fronts&#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-171224745","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\/171224745","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=171224745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171224745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171224745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171224745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171224745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}