{"id":228876035,"date":"2012-04-03T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228876035"},"modified":"2012-04-03T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:40:35","slug":"wider-straighter-and-faster-roads-arent-the-solution-for-older-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228876035","title":{"rendered":"Wider, Straighter, and Faster Roads Aren\u2019t the Solution for Older Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: While there are a lot of good things in this article, the following needs highlighting:<br \/>\n&quot;It is time for AASHTO, TRIP, and other members of that establishment to recognize the limitations of \u201cforgiving highways\u201d principles. This approach, which aims to reduce crashes by designing roads to accommodate driver error, might work well for interstates, freeways, and rural highways. But it should not be applied to the rest of our nation\u2019s roads. Evidence is mounting that not only does the \u201cwider, straighter, and faster\u201d philosophy fail to fix safety problems on urban and suburban arterials \u2014 it actually makes them worse.&quot;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2012\/03\/06\/wider-straighter-and-faster-roads-arent-the-solution-for-older-drivers\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2012\/03\/06\/wider-straighter-and-faster-roads-arent-the-solution-for-older-drivers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: While there are a lot of good things in this article, the following needs highlighting: &quot;It is time for AASHTO, TRIP, and other members of that establishment to recognize the limitations of \u201cforgiving highways\u201d principles. This approach, which aims to reduce crashes by designing roads to accommodate driver error, might work well for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228876035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wider, Straighter, and Faster Roads Aren\u2019t the Solution for Older Drivers&#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-228876035","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\/228876035","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=228876035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228876035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228876035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228876035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228876035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}