{"id":269795523,"date":"2013-07-20T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=269795523"},"modified":"2013-07-20T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T15:12:03","slug":"experiment-town-in-england-turns-off-traffic-lights-surprising-results-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=269795523","title":{"rendered":"Experiment Town in England turns off traffic lights surprising results [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: There are a lot of surprising results in non traditional road engineering vs the old car-centric with emphasis on speed approach to roads and this is one of them. One thing that needs to be emphasized here: &#8220;We need to experiment on what works and what does not work rather than rely on some so called expert whose calculation (using out dated standards) says we can&#8217;t accommodate bikes or pedestrians on some road because of the adverse effect on traffic.&#8221; There are a lot of options open to us that have little to no adverse effect and in some cases traffic flow is improved and general road safety is improved as well.]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lwHfibl1AoI?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lwHfibl1AoI?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: There are a lot of surprising results in non traditional road engineering vs the old car-centric with emphasis on speed approach to roads and this is one of them. One thing that needs to be emphasized here: &#8220;We need to experiment on what works and what does not work rather than rely on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=269795523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Experiment Town in England turns off traffic lights surprising results [video]&#8220;<\/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-269795523","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\/269795523","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=269795523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269795523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269795523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269795523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269795523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}