{"id":250087018,"date":"2012-12-04T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=250087018"},"modified":"2012-12-04T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:36:58","slug":"maryland-struggles-with-reducing-pedestrian-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=250087018","title":{"rendered":"Maryland struggles with reducing pedestrian deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Just to note Baltimore County is #2<br \/>\n*******************************************************<br \/>\nBen Giles, Washington Examiner<br \/>\nMaryland transportation officials lowered the bar when they set new goals for reducing pedestrian fatalities after the number of deaths continued to climb despite a nearly $50 million effort to make roads more walker-friendly.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe state&#8217;s struggles can in part be traced to Prince George&#8217;s and Montgomery counties, which rank first and third, respectively, for the number of pedestrian deaths between 2007 and 2011.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMontgomery County has shown signs of progress thanks in part to a county-funded pedestrian safety initiative, officials said, which saw $5 million initially set aside for the program.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/maryland-struggles-with-reducing-pedestrian-deaths\/article\/2514884#.UL4zoYfO1yQ\">https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/maryland-struggles-with-reducing-pedestrian-deaths\/article\/2514884#.UL4zoYfO1yQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Just to note Baltimore County is #2 ******************************************************* Ben Giles, Washington Examiner Maryland transportation officials lowered the bar when they set new goals for reducing pedestrian fatalities after the number of deaths continued to climb despite a nearly $50 million effort to make roads more walker-friendly. &#8230; The state&#8217;s struggles can in part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=250087018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maryland struggles with reducing pedestrian deaths&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250087018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250087018","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=250087018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250087018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250087018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250087018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250087018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}