{"id":244176985,"date":"2012-09-27T02:56:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244176985"},"modified":"2012-09-27T02:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T02:56:25","slug":"dear-crosswalk-vigilantes-thank-you-you-made-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244176985","title":{"rendered":"Dear crosswalk vigilantes: Thank you! You made my day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Diana Nelson Jones \/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe civic association has formally requested that the city paint crosswalks at that intersection and reports on its blog &#8212; blogski.phcapgh.org &#8212; that while it &quot;didn&#8217;t initiate this action and doesn&#8217;t know who did, we share the concern that motivated it.&quot;<br \/>\nAlexis Miller, president of the civic association, said the group has been &quot;voicing concerns on behalf of the community for over a year. The response from the city was that it doesn&#8217;t have the means to paint crosswalks at every four-way stop intersection and that it prioritizes based on pedestrian traffic,&quot; she said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;The fact that people painted the crosswalks themselves says more than I can say,&quot; she added. &quot;People are willing to take action into their own hands. The city said that it would be removed.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;m proud of this neighborhood, of people who don&#8217;t hesitate to do what&#8217;s right. I saw the aftermath of an accident&quot; between a van and a car near the intersection a few months ago. &quot;I know cars speed through here. It&#8217;s a shame people don&#8217;t recognize this is a neighborhood and take the time to be careful.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;I love it. Honestly, a lot of people cut through here and don&#8217;t realize there are people walking. I think it&#8217;s awesome that people here take action when the city doesn&#8217;t.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/morning-file\/walkabout-crosswalks-created-by-the-underground-around-polish-hill-654769\/\">https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/morning-file\/walkabout-crosswalks-created-by-the-underground-around-polish-hill-654769\/<\/a>oldId.20120927025625520<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diana Nelson Jones \/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette &#8230; The civic association has formally requested that the city paint crosswalks at that intersection and reports on its blog &#8212; blogski.phcapgh.org &#8212; that while it &quot;didn&#8217;t initiate this action and doesn&#8217;t know who did, we share the concern that motivated it.&quot; Alexis Miller, president of the civic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244176985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear crosswalk vigilantes: Thank you! You made my day.&#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-244176985","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\/244176985","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=244176985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244176985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244176985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244176985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244176985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}