{"id":210859925,"date":"2011-09-07T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210859925"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T12:12:05","slug":"montgomery-police-pledge-to-step-up-ticketing-of-jaywalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210859925","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery police pledge to step up ticketing of jaywalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Zapana &#8211; Washington Post<br \/>\nA week after a county report revealed improvements to pedestrian safety \u2014 and Montgomery officials touted its safety program \u2014 county police have pledged to issue more tickets to jaywalkers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n******************************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: That&#8217;s right, the county that was known for it&#8217;s pedestrian stings (ticketing motorist for not stopping for undercover officers in crosswalks) is adopting practices that Baltimore County uses to maintain a really high pedestrian fatality rate. Seriously, Montgomery County are you trying to reverse your successful trend?]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/montgomery-county-police-plan-to-issue-more-tickets-to-jaywalkers\/2011\/09\/02\/gIQAsUi4zJ_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/montgomery-county-police-plan-to-issue-more-tickets-to-jaywalkers\/2011\/09\/02\/gIQAsUi4zJ_story.html<\/a>oldId.20110907121205124<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Zapana &#8211; Washington Post A week after a county report revealed improvements to pedestrian safety \u2014 and Montgomery officials touted its safety program \u2014 county police have pledged to issue more tickets to jaywalkers. &#8230; ****************************************************************************** [B&#8217; Spokes: That&#8217;s right, the county that was known for it&#8217;s pedestrian stings (ticketing motorist for not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210859925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Montgomery police pledge to step up ticketing of jaywalkers&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210859925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210859925","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=210859925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210859925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210859925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210859925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210859925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}