{"id":262900346,"date":"2013-05-01T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262900346"},"modified":"2013-05-01T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:52:26","slug":"why-20mph-school-safety-zones-can-have-minimum-impact-on-child-road-safety-and-will-encourage-inactive-travel-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262900346","title":{"rendered":"Why 20mph School Safety Zones can have  minimum impact on child road safety and will encourage inactive travel to school."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the face of it, having a 20mph speed limits around a school entrance seems an sensible idea.<br \/>\nHowever, a closer inspection may lead us to a very different conclusion<br \/>\nFirst some background and key facts &#8211;<br \/>\n* Only a small minority of child road casualties occur on the way to or from school (Just 20%).<br \/>\n* Very few casualties occur outside the school itself.<br \/>\n* The mean radius of school safety zones is just 300m, yet the mean distance travelled to school is 1.8km.<br \/>\n. Hence the school safety zones apply to only 17% of the journey.2<br \/>\n* At exit gateways to school safety zones drivers are reminded of an increase in speed limit to 30mph.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nRead more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8-80cities.org\/images\/res-streets-articles\/how-school-safety-zones-are-not-a-priority.pdf\">https:\/\/www.8-80cities.org\/images\/res-streets-articles\/how-school-safety-zones-are-not-a-priority.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the face of it, having a 20mph speed limits around a school entrance seems an sensible idea. However, a closer inspection may lead us to a very different conclusion First some background and key facts &#8211; * Only a small minority of child road casualties occur on the way to or from school (Just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262900346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why 20mph School Safety Zones can have  minimum impact on child road safety and will encourage inactive travel to school.&#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-262900346","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\/262900346","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=262900346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262900346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262900346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262900346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262900346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}