{"id":281110999,"date":"2013-11-28T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281110999"},"modified":"2013-11-28T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:23:19","slug":"nyc-dot-shares-its-five-principles-for-designing-safer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281110999","title":{"rendered":"NYC DOT Shares Its Five Principles for Designing Safer Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Fried, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Make the street easy to use <\/b>by accommodating desire lines and minimizing the complexity of driving, walking, and biking, thus reducing crash risk by providing a direct, simple way to move through the street network.<\/li>\n<li><b>Create safety in numbers<\/b>, which makes vulnerable street users such as pedestrians and cyclists more visible. The same design principle, applied to arterial streets when traffic is light, reduces the opportunity for excessive speeds.<\/li>\n<li><b>Make the invisible visible <\/b>by putting users where they can see each other.<\/li>\n<li><b>Choose quality over quantity <\/b>so that roadway and intersection geometries serve the first three design principles.<\/li>\n<li><b>Look beyond the (immediate) problem <\/b>by expanding the focus area if solutions at a particular location can\u2019t be addressed in isolation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2013\/11\/21\/nyc-dot-shares-its-five-principles-for-designing-safer-streets\">https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2013\/11\/21\/nyc-dot-shares-its-five-principles-for-designing-safer-streets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Fried, Streets Blog &#8230; Make the street easy to use by accommodating desire lines and minimizing the complexity of driving, walking, and biking, thus reducing crash risk by providing a direct, simple way to move through the street network. Create safety in numbers, which makes vulnerable street users such as pedestrians and cyclists &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281110999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYC DOT Shares Its Five Principles for Designing Safer Streets&#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-281110999","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\/281110999","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=281110999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281110999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281110999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281110999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281110999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}