{"id":176926756,"date":"2010-08-10T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176926756"},"modified":"2010-08-10T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T18:19:16","slug":"lawlessness-due-to-lack-of-infrastructure-and-sharrows-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176926756","title":{"rendered":"Lawlessness due to lack of infrastructure and Sharrows work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washcycle has a couple of good points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The DCist article has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/2010\/08\/pedestrian_and_cyclist_accident_map.php#comment-2654199\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a comment<\/a> with an excellent point I&#8217;ve not heard raised before<em> &#8220;It&#8217;s the absence of infrastructure that creates the perception of<br \/>\nlawlessness. The problem is, unlike yourself, the overwhelming majority<br \/>\n of people do not perceive the roads to be safe for cyclists, due to the<br \/>\n lack of infrastructure, causing males between the ages of 17 and 23 to<br \/>\nbe disproportionately and overwhelmingly represented. If there is one<br \/>\nuniversality the world over is that 17 to 23 year old males are reckless<br \/>\n and lawless road users, be they using skateboards, bicycles or cars.<br \/>\nWhen you install infrastructure that increases the perception of road<br \/>\nsafety, people between the ages of 7 to 70 use bicycles as transport,<br \/>\nand actually respect the road laws, creating a safer environment for<br \/>\neverybody.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commuterpageblog.com\/2010\/08\/sharrows-and-sharing-the-roads.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CommuterPageBlog<\/a> has a post about sharrows &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">research by the U.S. Department of<br \/>\nTransportation revealed that sharrows significantly increase the passing space between<br \/>\nmotor vehicles and bicyclists and reduce improper bicycle behavior, such as<br \/>\nriding on the sidewalk or riding the wrong way on a street.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2010\/08\/tuesday-morning-ride.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2010\/08\/tuesday-morning-ride.html<\/a>oldId.20100810181916459<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washcycle has a couple of good points: The DCist article has a comment with an excellent point I&#8217;ve not heard raised before &#8220;It&#8217;s the absence of infrastructure that creates the perception of lawlessness. The problem is, unlike yourself, the overwhelming majority of people do not perceive the roads to be safe for cyclists, due to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176926756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lawlessness due to lack of infrastructure and Sharrows work&#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-176926756","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\/176926756","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=176926756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176926756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176926756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176926756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176926756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}