{"id":280432366,"date":"2013-11-20T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280432366"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:52:46","slug":"creator-charlie-helps-motorists-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280432366","title":{"rendered":"Creator: &#8216;Charlie&#8217; helps motorists slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By WBALTV<\/p>\n<p>City wants &#8216;Charlie&#8217; sculpture taken down, says it&#8217;s hazardous.<\/p>\n<p>When traffic kept coming through one city neighborhood at break-neck speed, residents decided something had to be done.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/image\/view\/-\/23073914\/medRes\/1\/-\/maxh\/220\/maxw\/220\/-\/y909cb\/-\/charlie-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fouse said since Charlie has been there, folks driving through the intersection have slowed down, which was the whole idea.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But no matter how residents feel, the city said Charlie has to go.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/creator-charlie-helps-motorists-slow-down\/-\/10131532\/23073708\/-\/alweb4z\/-\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/creator-charlie-helps-motorists-slow-down\/-\/10131532\/23073708\/-\/alweb4z\/-\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>B&#8217;Spokes: But meanwhile in bike friendly Tucson, AZ this stands to help make this bike route a lot safer (but BCDOT would probably call it unsafe and take it down):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Tucson,+AZ&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=32.231467,-110.972962&amp;spn=0.001468,0.002642&amp;sll=38.804821,-77.236967&amp;sspn=2.769436,5.410767&amp;oq=Tucson&amp;hnear=Tucson,+Pima,+Arizona&amp;t=m&amp;z=19&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=32.231604,-110.973188&amp;panoid=kANXG-ZyZbVDyil61ogo9g&amp;cbp=12,255.62,,0,10.14\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-frc1\/q71\/1457545_10151991570243076_960214432_n.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WBALTV City wants &#8216;Charlie&#8217; sculpture taken down, says it&#8217;s hazardous. When traffic kept coming through one city neighborhood at break-neck speed, residents decided something had to be done. &#8230; &#8230; Fouse said since Charlie has been there, folks driving through the intersection have slowed down, which was the whole idea. &#8230; But no matter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280432366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creator: &#8216;Charlie&#8217; helps motorists slow down&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280432366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280432366","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=280432366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280432366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280432366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280432366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280432366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}