{"id":192104348,"date":"2011-02-02T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192104348"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:19:08","slug":"benefits-of-the-idaho-stop-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192104348","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of the Idaho Stop law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from TheWashCycle<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIdaho presents a natural experiment to test the safety of relaxing requirements due to its state law allowing cyclists to yield [at stop signs] rather than come to a hard stop. Comparison cities lacking the law were sought and Idaho fared best for overall bicycle safety, 30.4% better than the closest match. Bicycle injuries declined 14.5% the year after adoption of the law. Interviews and a survey were conducted and all indications were that the law has been beneficial or had no negative effect, encouraging additional states to follow.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/02\/compounded-public-cobenefits-of-the-idaho-law.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/02\/compounded-public-cobenefits-of-the-idaho-law.html<\/a>oldId.20110202101908981<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TheWashCycle &#8230; Idaho presents a natural experiment to test the safety of relaxing requirements due to its state law allowing cyclists to yield [at stop signs] rather than come to a hard stop. Comparison cities lacking the law were sought and Idaho fared best for overall bicycle safety, 30.4% better than the closest match. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192104348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benefits of the Idaho Stop law&#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-192104348","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\/192104348","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=192104348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192104348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192104348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192104348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192104348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}