{"id":175696304,"date":"2010-07-27T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175696304"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:31:44","slug":"pedestrians-no-longer-have-to-play-frogger-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175696304","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrians no longer have to play &quot;Frogger&quot;  [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ann Arbor City Council unanimously approved a new pedestrian safety ordinance Monday night that gives walkers and bicyclists the upper hand when trying to brave traffic to cross city streets.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;The major change is that you&#8217;re not required to risk one of your limbs to claim the right to the crosswalk,&#8221; Hohnke said. &#8220;So that if you&#8217;re intending to enter the crosswalk, if you&#8217;re about to enter the crosswalk, it now gives police officers the discretion to say (to motorists), &#8216;Hey, you know that person wanted to get into the crosswalk, and I&#8217;m going to ask you to provide them the right of way to do that.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the previous ordinance, Hohnke said, even if a pedestrian was waiting several minutes to enter a crosswalk, police had no opportunity to help them.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xsT5ZJUnBg0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xsT5ZJUnBg0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.annarbor.com\/news\/ann-arbors-new-pedestrian-safety-ordinance-seeks-to-prevent-playing-frogger-to-cross-the-street\/\">https:\/\/www.annarbor.com\/news\/ann-arbors-new-pedestrian-safety-ordinance-seeks-to-prevent-playing-frogger-to-cross-the-street\/<\/a>oldId.2010072712314474<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ann Arbor City Council unanimously approved a new pedestrian safety ordinance Monday night that gives walkers and bicyclists the upper hand when trying to brave traffic to cross city streets. &#8230; &#8220;The major change is that you&#8217;re not required to risk one of your limbs to claim the right to the crosswalk,&#8221; Hohnke said. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175696304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pedestrians no longer have to play &quot;Frogger&quot;  [video]&#8220;<\/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-175696304","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\/175696304","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=175696304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175696304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175696304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175696304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175696304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}