{"id":180173252,"date":"2010-09-17T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180173252"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:07:32","slug":"londons-do-it-yourself-approach-to-safer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180173252","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Do-It-Yourself Approach to Safer Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  by Elizabeth Press<br \/>\nIn the UK, the non-profit Sustrans is pioneering a community-based method to reclaim streets from high-speed traffic and make neighborhoods safer and more sociable places.<br \/>\nCalled &quot;DIY Streets,&quot; the program brings neighbors together to help them redesign their streets in a way that puts people, safety, and streetlife first. So far, individual streets have benefited from DIY redesigns in 11 communities in England and Wales. Recently Streetfilms got a walk through of one successful DIY project &#8212; on Clapton Terrace in London. With the people who made it happen as our guides, we saw how planners and neighbors collaborated to transform a place where speeding used to rule into a local street with calm traffic and safe space to socialize.<br \/>\nCan the DIY model work on a bigger scale than an individual street? We&#8217;re about to find out: Residents of the London Borough of Haringey will soon be working with Sustrans on the first neighborhood-wide DIY project.<br \/>\n[Watch the video.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/londons-do-it-yourself-approach-to-safer-streets\/\">https:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/londons-do-it-yourself-approach-to-safer-streets\/<\/a>oldId.20100917080732992<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elizabeth Press In the UK, the non-profit Sustrans is pioneering a community-based method to reclaim streets from high-speed traffic and make neighborhoods safer and more sociable places. Called &quot;DIY Streets,&quot; the program brings neighbors together to help them redesign their streets in a way that puts people, safety, and streetlife first. So far, individual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180173252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London\u2019s Do-It-Yourself Approach to Safer Streets&#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-180173252","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\/180173252","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=180173252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180173252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180173252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180173252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180173252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}