{"id":184859461,"date":"2010-11-10T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184859461"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:51:01","slug":"dc-buses-pedestrians-get-out-of-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184859461","title":{"rendered":"DC Buses: Pedestrians Get Out of My Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase safety WMTA has instigated a pilot &quot;Talking Bus&quot; program. When a driver turns on it turn signals a voice any Borg would be proud of announces \u201cPEDESTRIANS, BUS IS TURNING.\u201d Greater Greater Washington points out:<br \/>\n&quot;Worse, talking buses bully pedestrians into accepting responsibility for an incident that might occur. After all, if someone is unfortunately struck, shouldn&#8217;t they have seen it coming? It&#8217;s logic designed to distract attention away from the incident itself, and prematurely assign responsibility. &quot;<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t this sound like The Onion&#8217;s Pedestrian Safety Program? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100813104440316\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100813104440316<\/a><br \/>\nYou know it would be nice to have a safety program that The Onion did not think of first, just saying.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo hear the new buses: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/increased-safety-or-nuisance.html\">https:\/\/unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/increased-safety-or-nuisance.html<\/a><br \/>\nMore from Greater Greater Washington: <a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=7664\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=7664<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20101110135101173<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase safety WMTA has instigated a pilot &quot;Talking Bus&quot; program. When a driver turns on it turn signals a voice any Borg would be proud of announces \u201cPEDESTRIANS, BUS IS TURNING.\u201d Greater Greater Washington points out: &quot;Worse, talking buses bully pedestrians into accepting responsibility for an incident that might occur. After &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184859461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DC Buses: Pedestrians Get Out of My Way&#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-184859461","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\/184859461","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=184859461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184859461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184859461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184859461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184859461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}