{"id":265937821,"date":"2013-06-05T23:37:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265937821"},"modified":"2013-06-05T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:37:01","slug":"if-your-hand-is-on-door-handle-eye-should-be-on-cyclists-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265937821","title":{"rendered":"If your hand is on door handle, eye should be on cyclists\u2019 path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tony Lovell<br \/>\nYOUR ARTICLE on Boston\u2019s bicycle safety report notes that 22 percent \u201cof the collisions between cars and cyclists occurred when a vehicle door opened unexpectedly on a cyclist\u201d (\u201cWith crash data, city tries to make bicycling safer,\u201d Page A1, May 15).<br \/>\nCar doors do not open \u201cunexpectedly\u201d; they open when people in the vehicle work a handle and push them open.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/letters\/2013\/05\/21\/your-hand-door-handle-eye-should-cyclists-path\/fZXgkb6kHkW3BoOHHGcLJN\/story.html\">https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/letters\/2013\/05\/21\/your-hand-door-handle-eye-should-cyclists-path\/fZXgkb6kHkW3BoOHHGcLJN\/story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tony Lovell YOUR ARTICLE on Boston\u2019s bicycle safety report notes that 22 percent \u201cof the collisions between cars and cyclists occurred when a vehicle door opened unexpectedly on a cyclist\u201d (\u201cWith crash data, city tries to make bicycling safer,\u201d Page A1, May 15). Car doors do not open \u201cunexpectedly\u201d; they open when people in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265937821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If your hand is on door handle, eye should be on cyclists\u2019 path&#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-265937821","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\/265937821","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=265937821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265937821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265937821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265937821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265937821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}