{"id":254596002,"date":"2013-01-25T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=254596002"},"modified":"2013-01-25T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:06:42","slug":"road-diets-are-changing-american-cities-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=254596002","title":{"rendered":"Road Diets Are Changing American Cities for the Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAnother role model PPS points to is the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. Poughkeepsie\u2019s treatment for Raymond Avenue involved the removal of one traffic lane in each direction and the addition of three roundabouts. The city also added a center median with pedestrian refuges, to facilitate safer crossing.<br \/>\nThat project led to a 50 percent decrease in traffic collisions and the opening of several new businesses in the area.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/01\/23\/road-diets-are-changing-american-cities-for-the-better\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/01\/23\/road-diets-are-changing-american-cities-for-the-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog &#8230; Another role model PPS points to is the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. Poughkeepsie\u2019s treatment for Raymond Avenue involved the removal of one traffic lane in each direction and the addition of three roundabouts. The city also added a center median with pedestrian refuges, to facilitate safer crossing. That &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=254596002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Road Diets Are Changing American Cities for the Better&#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-254596002","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\/254596002","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=254596002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254596002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254596002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254596002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254596002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}