{"id":263303118,"date":"2013-05-06T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263303118"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:45:18","slug":"new-chicago-plan-pedestrians-come-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263303118","title":{"rendered":"New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BADGER, The Atlantic Cities<br \/>\nTucked inside the new Complete Streets Design Guidelines that the city of Chicago is about to debut, pasted onto page 10, is a reproduction of a Chicago Tribune news blurb from May 6, of 1913 with this irresistible headline: \u201cSPEEDER WANTS ALL STREET: Motorist Complains to Judge Because Pedestrian Gets in Way.\u201d<br \/>\nPedestrian advocates exactly a century later will be happy to know that our 19-year-old anti-hero, Harold Bracken (son of a saloonkeeper!), was fined by the court $200 for knocking over a pedestrian on Michigan Avenue with his speeding car. An equally awesome detail: Our injured pedestrian got up, jumped into a passing car, caught up with Bracken and had him arrested. In doling out the fine, a municipal judge declared, &quot;The Streets of Chicago belong to the city, not to automobilists.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;My feeling is that we have to swing the pendulum in the other direction,&quot; says Gabe Klein, commissioner of Chicago\u2019s Department of Transportation. &quot;The fact is that the transit user is also a pedestrian, a cyclist is also a pedestrian, an auto user is also a pedestrian. You may not chose the other modes every day, but every day you\u2019re a pedestrian.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/04\/chicago-commits-put-pedestrians-first-transportation-planning\/5256\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/04\/chicago-commits-put-pedestrians-first-transportation-planning\/5256\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BADGER, The Atlantic Cities Tucked inside the new Complete Streets Design Guidelines that the city of Chicago is about to debut, pasted onto page 10, is a reproduction of a Chicago Tribune news blurb from May 6, of 1913 with this irresistible headline: \u201cSPEEDER WANTS ALL STREET: Motorist Complains to Judge Because Pedestrian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263303118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First&#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-263303118","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\/263303118","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=263303118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263303118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263303118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263303118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263303118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}