{"id":259712291,"date":"2013-03-25T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259712291"},"modified":"2013-03-25T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:18:11","slug":"streets-cars-pedestrians-accidents-streets-as-anti-social-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259712291","title":{"rendered":"Streets, cars, pedestrians, accidents: streets as anti-social spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I&#8217;ll note at one time Montgomery County was good at doing pedestrian crosswalk stings and now this? What the heck happened?]<br \/>\n*************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Richard Layman, Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space<br \/>\nMontgomery County&#8217;s Action Committee on Transit released a brief press release yesterday, because there were 3 accidents involving 5 pedestrians all before 9am yesterday morning:<br \/>\nWhat Will It Take for the Montgomery County Police To Tell Drivers To Obey the Law?<br \/>\nFive pedestrians were struck by drivers in three Montgomery County incidents yesterday (Tuesday) morning before 9:00 am. All three collisions occurred where the pedestrians had the right of way.<br \/>\nYet county police responded with a press release entitled &quot;Police Remind Pedestrians To Be Careful.&quot; Nowhere did the police tell drivers to obey the law, which requires drivers to yield to pedestrians on sidewalks and in marked and unmarked crosswalks.<br \/>\nThe three incidents:<br \/>\n&#8211; A mother and her two children were struck on the sidewalk at Gaithersburg Elementary School.<br \/>\n&#8211; A pedestrian was struck crossing Wisconsin Avenue in an unmarked crosswalk at Chelsea Lane in Bethesda.<br \/>\n&#8211; A Watkins Mill high school student was struck in a marked crosswalk on the way to school.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/streets-cars-pedestrians-accidents.html\">https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/streets-cars-pedestrians-accidents.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I&#8217;ll note at one time Montgomery County was good at doing pedestrian crosswalk stings and now this? What the heck happened?] ************************************************************************* By Richard Layman, Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space Montgomery County&#8217;s Action Committee on Transit released a brief press release yesterday, because there were 3 accidents involving 5 pedestrians all before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=259712291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Streets, cars, pedestrians, accidents: streets as anti-social spaces&#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-259712291","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\/259712291","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=259712291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259712291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259712291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259712291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259712291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}