{"id":212099277,"date":"2011-09-21T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212099277"},"modified":"2011-09-21T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:27:57","slug":"debunking-the-cul-de-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212099277","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the Cul-de-Sac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BADGER<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn their California study, Garrick and Marshall eventually realized the safest cities had an element in common: They were all incorporated before 1930. Something about the way they were designed made them safer. The key wasn\u2019t necessarily that large numbers of bikers produced safer cities, but that the design elements of cities that encouraged people to bike in places like Davis were the same ones that were yielding fewer traffic fatalities.<br \/>\nThese cities were built the old way: along those monotonous grids. In general, they didn\u2019t have fewer accidents overall, but they had far fewer deadly ones. Marshall and Garrick figured that cars (and cars with bikes) must be colliding at lower speeds on these types of street networks. At first glance such tightly interconnected communities might appear more dangerous, with cars traveling from all directions and constantly intersecting with each other. But what if such patterns actually force people to drive slower and pay more attention?<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of people feel that they want to live in a cul-de-sac, they feel like it\u2019s a safer place to be,\u201d Marshall says. \u201cThe reality is yes, you\u2019re safer \u2013 if you never leave your cul-de-sac. But if you actually move around town like a normal person, your town as a whole is much more dangerous.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/design\/2011\/09\/street-grids\/124\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/design\/2011\/09\/street-grids\/124\/<\/a>oldId.20110921202757927<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BADGER &#8230; In their California study, Garrick and Marshall eventually realized the safest cities had an element in common: They were all incorporated before 1930. Something about the way they were designed made them safer. The key wasn\u2019t necessarily that large numbers of bikers produced safer cities, but that the design elements of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212099277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Debunking the Cul-de-Sac&#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-212099277","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\/212099277","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=212099277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212099277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212099277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212099277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212099277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}