{"id":243098912,"date":"2012-09-14T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243098912"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:28:32","slug":"chicago-unveils-1st-pedestrian-safety-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243098912","title":{"rendered":"Chicago unveils 1st pedestrian safety plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It would be interesting if our new bike\/ped master plan (due 2014) included items like this:]<br \/>\n*********************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Bridget Doyle, Chicago Tribune reporter<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n The hundreds of recommendations include better-marked crosswalks, the establishment of pedestrian islands in the middle of multilane streets, better signals and beacons, and pedestrian countdown timers at crossings. Other long-term improvements discussed in the plan include staggered midblock bump-outs on residential streets to slow traffic.<br \/>\n Continental-style crosswalks were among the first changes, CDOT Commissioner Gabe Klein said, largely because the department began to weave in the new pedestrian plan in time for already-scheduled construction projects.<br \/>\n The crosswalks have big rungs across the walkway for higher visibility and are made of a reflective material, Klein said. More than 100 such crosswalks were installed in 2012, Klein said.<br \/>\n Pavement markings &amp;mdash; on crosswalks and stop lines for vehicles &amp;mdash; are faded across Chicago, and Klein said millions would be spent this year repainting such markings so they are visible to drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.<br \/>\n &quot;Our goal is to bake these new standards into everything that&#8217;s being done in public right of way,&quot; he said.<br \/>\n The plan also establishes what the agency&#8217;s announced &quot;Zero in Ten&quot; goal: reducing pedestrian fatalities in Chicago to zero in the next 10 years.&lt;br&gt;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-chicago-pedestrian-plan-20120906,0,2929678.story\">https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-chicago-pedestrian-plan-20120906,0,2929678.story<\/a>oldId.20120914152832915<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It would be interesting if our new bike\/ped master plan (due 2014) included items like this:] ********************************************************************* By Bridget Doyle, Chicago Tribune reporter &#8230; The hundreds of recommendations include better-marked crosswalks, the establishment of pedestrian islands in the middle of multilane streets, better signals and beacons, and pedestrian countdown timers at crossings. Other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243098912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicago unveils 1st pedestrian safety plan&#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-243098912","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\/243098912","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=243098912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243098912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243098912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243098912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243098912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}