{"id":243266040,"date":"2012-09-16T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243266040"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T13:54:00","slug":"bicycling-as-traffic-calming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243266040","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling as traffic calming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: Richard Layman has a nice summary of (pioneering) resources on this topic in particular this one which never accrued to me before. The problem with typical crosswalk besides drivers rarely yielding is that pedestrians do not have a solid right-of-way, drivers are turning right or left across their path. So how do we dial up accommodating pedestrians (i.e. people)? From <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/bicycling-as-traffic-calming.html\">https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/bicycling-as-traffic-calming.html<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rllayman\/7992355297\/\" title=\"Kids_cross, Oakland Barnes Dance Intersection by rllayman, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids_cross, Oakland Barnes Dance Intersection\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8172\/7992355297_6795927d07.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere needs to be more &#8220;Barnes Dance&#8221; pedestrian scramble intersections, where pedestrian movement is prioritized over cars and the pavement treatment needs to emphasize this, like in Pasadena or Oakland, California&#8211;DC has such an intersection, but there is no special treatment of the&nbsp;crosswalks, in particular the diagonal crosswalks.&nbsp; If there were, it would emphasize the importance of pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Barnes &#8220;Dance&#8221; intersection treatment, Oakland, California, from the Streetsblog entry &#8220;<\/span><a class=\"l\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2009\/01\/13\/eyes-on-the-street-history-of-oakland-chinatowns-barnes-dance\/\"><span style=\"color: #1122cc; font-size: x-small;\">Eyes on the Street: History of Oakland Chinatown&#8217;s Barnes Dance Intersection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">.&#8221;&nbsp; The entry has some great photos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Richard Layman has a nice summary of (pioneering) resources on this topic in particular this one which never accrued to me before. The problem with typical crosswalk besides drivers rarely yielding is that pedestrians do not have a solid right-of-way, drivers are turning right or left across their path. So how do we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243266040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycling as traffic calming&#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-243266040","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\/243266040","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=243266040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243266040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243266040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243266040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243266040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}