{"id":211657491,"date":"2011-09-16T17:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211657491"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:44:51","slug":"pedestrian-student-safety-measures-funded-in-cheverly-new-carrollton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211657491","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian, student safety measures funded in Cheverly, New Carrollton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Natalie McGill &#8211; Gazette<br \/>\nNew street signs, flashing lights and raised crosswalks will make two central Prince George\u2019s municipalities more pedestrian- and bike-friendly for students, thanks to federal funding.<br \/>\nCheverly received $98,500 and New Carrollton received $24,900 in Safe Routes to School grant money, part of an overall $1.2 million award Prince George&#8217;s County received, according to a Sept. 7 Maryland State Highway Administration announcement.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n**************************************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: This is nice but Safe Routes to School is a small pot of money that does not require any local match so it is highly sought after. Unlike our federal Transportation &quot;Enhancements&quot; where our state has the highest match requirement in the nation and $31 million available in funds&#8230;<br \/>\nBut you can&#8217;t use Transportation Enhancements for projects like this&#8230; at least per Maryland made up rules and unfortunately not many have a problem with that.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nGazette article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/article\/20110915\/NEWS\/709159902\/1010\/pedestrian-student-safety-measures-funded-in-cheverly-new&amp;template=gazette\">https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/article\/20110915\/NEWS\/709159902\/1010\/pedestrian-student-safety-measures-funded-in-cheverly-new&amp;template=gazette<\/a>oldId.20110916174451588<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Natalie McGill &#8211; Gazette New street signs, flashing lights and raised crosswalks will make two central Prince George\u2019s municipalities more pedestrian- and bike-friendly for students, thanks to federal funding. Cheverly received $98,500 and New Carrollton received $24,900 in Safe Routes to School grant money, part of an overall $1.2 million award Prince George&#8217;s County &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=211657491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pedestrian, student safety measures funded in Cheverly, New Carrollton&#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-211657491","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\/211657491","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=211657491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211657491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211657491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211657491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211657491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}