{"id":244582226,"date":"2012-10-01T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244582226"},"modified":"2012-10-01T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:30:26","slug":"how-streets-designed-for-speed-led-to-the-death-of-a-seventh-grade-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244582226","title":{"rendered":"How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of a Seventh Grade Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just to note the speed limit around Hopkins is 35 mph with many, many drivers doing 45 mph. The following is why enforcing speed limits is important.]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<p>Get hit by a car traveling 20 miles per hour, and the odds are 19 to 1 that you, the pedestrian, will live to see another walk around the block. &#8230; And if a driver hits you at 40 miles per hour, there\u2019s almost a nine in ten chance that you won\u2019t survive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21994\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/untitled_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21994\" title=\"untitled_2\" src=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/untitled_2-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatermarin.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/01\/its-our-infrastructure-that-kills-us-2\/\">UK DOT\/The Greater Marin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet when people die in traffic on&nbsp;local streets designed for vehicle speeds of 40 mph or higher, the conditions that produced a potentially fatal situation in the first place are rarely discussed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2012\/10\/01\/how-streets-designed-for-speed-led-to-the-death-of-seventh-grade-girl\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2012\/10\/01\/how-streets-designed-for-speed-led-to-the-death-of-seventh-grade-girl\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just to note the speed limit around Hopkins is 35 mph with many, many drivers doing 45 mph. The following is why enforcing speed limits is important.] by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog Get hit by a car traveling 20 miles per hour, and the odds are 19 to 1 that you, the pedestrian, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244582226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Streets Designed for Speed Led to the Death of a Seventh Grade Girl&#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-244582226","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\/244582226","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=244582226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244582226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244582226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244582226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244582226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}