{"id":207530461,"date":"2011-07-30T23:21:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207530461"},"modified":"2011-07-30T23:21:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:21:01","slug":"cuomo-to-turn-truck-mirrors-requirement-into-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207530461","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo To Turn Truck Mirrors Requirement Into State Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Filed under news you will not see in Maryland as it&#8217;s always the cyclists fault when trucks turn right across the cyclist path.::( ]<br \/>\n****************************************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nGovernor Andrew Cuomo will sign a bill into law this week that requires large trucks to install special mirrors so they can see pedestrians near blind spots.<br \/>\nThe bill will require trucks to attach convex &quot;crossover&quot; mirrors that should help the driver see around the truck better. Those mirrors will cost truck owners and operators a few hundred dollars each.<\/p>\n<p>Momentum for the bill grew after a Brooklyn boy died when he was hit by a truck while riding his tricycle in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver never saw the child.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/news_beats\/transit\/143092\/cuomo-to-turn-truck-mirrors-requirement-into-state-law\">https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/news_beats\/transit\/143092\/cuomo-to-turn-truck-mirrors-requirement-into-state-law<\/a>oldId.20110730232101130<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Filed under news you will not see in Maryland as it&#8217;s always the cyclists fault when trucks turn right across the cyclist path.::( ] **************************************************************************************************************************************************** Governor Andrew Cuomo will sign a bill into law this week that requires large trucks to install special mirrors so they can see pedestrians near blind spots. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207530461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cuomo To Turn Truck Mirrors Requirement Into State 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207530461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207530461","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=207530461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207530461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207530461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207530461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207530461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}