{"id":185636444,"date":"2010-11-19T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185636444"},"modified":"2010-11-19T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:40:44","slug":"americas-traffic-death-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185636444","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Traffic Death Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nFor example, the Dutch have turned away from building wide, flat streets that increase speeds in favor of roadways that prioritize the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. They call them \u201cself-explaining streets.\u201d Meanwhile, the United States kept on building wide, straight \u201cforgiving highways.\u201d The differences today are dramatic. In 1975, the Dutch traffic fatality rate was 20 percent higher than America\u2019s. Today, the U.S. fatality rate is two and half times higher than in the Netherlands. [That&#8217;s 250%]<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/11\/17\/seatbelts-and-tickets-alone-wont-cure-americas-traffic-death-epidemic\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/11\/17\/seatbelts-and-tickets-alone-wont-cure-americas-traffic-death-epidemic\/<\/a>oldId.20101119134044480<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; For example, the Dutch have turned away from building wide, flat streets that increase speeds in favor of roadways that prioritize the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. They call them \u201cself-explaining streets.\u201d Meanwhile, the United States kept on building wide, straight \u201cforgiving highways.\u201d The differences today are dramatic. In 1975, the Dutch traffic fatality &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185636444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America\u2019s Traffic Death Epidemic&#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-185636444","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\/185636444","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=185636444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185636444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185636444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185636444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185636444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}