{"id":261144024,"date":"2013-04-11T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261144024"},"modified":"2013-04-11T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:00:24","slug":"crosswalks-in-new-york-are-not-havens-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261144024","title":{"rendered":"Crosswalks in New York Are Not Havens, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It has long been my assertion that given motorists will not properly yield for you at an intersection the safest  place for you to cross is mid-block where traffic comes from a predictable and limited directions. So what does Maryland do? Ticket the jaywalkers and leave the intersections even more dangerous by not enforcing proper driver behavior.]<br \/>\n******************************************************************<br \/>\nBy MATT FLEGENHEIMER, New York Times<br \/>\nPedestrians struck by cars are most often hit while in the crosswalk, with the signal on their side.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThese are among the findings of a medical study of injured pedestrians and cyclists in the city, conducted by a team of trauma surgeons, emergency physicians and researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/03\/nyregion\/study-details-injuries-to-pedestrians-and-cyclists-in-new-york-city.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;#h[TaaTaa\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/03\/nyregion\/study-details-injuries-to-pedestrians-and-cyclists-in-new-york-city.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;#h[TaaTaa<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It has long been my assertion that given motorists will not properly yield for you at an intersection the safest place for you to cross is mid-block where traffic comes from a predictable and limited directions. So what does Maryland do? Ticket the jaywalkers and leave the intersections even more dangerous by not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261144024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crosswalks in New York Are Not Havens, Study Finds&#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-261144024","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\/261144024","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=261144024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261144024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261144024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261144024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261144024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}