{"id":290611723,"date":"2014-03-18T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290611723"},"modified":"2014-03-18T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:28:43","slug":"fhwa-proposes-to-let-states-fail-their-own-safety-goals-with-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290611723","title":{"rendered":"FHWA Proposes to Let States Fail Their Own Safety Goals With Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog<br \/>\nSecretary Anthony Foxx has made clear that safety \u2014 and specifically, safety for bicyclists and pedestrians \u2014 is a priority of his administration. If that\u2019s true, his administration sure has a funny way of showing it.<br \/>\nThe Federal Highway Administration\u2019s proposal on safety performance measures allows states to fail to meet half their own safety targets without consequences. And it gives the seal of approval to worsening safety performance as long as people in that state are driving more.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFirst, bike and pedestrian advocates are bitterly disappointed that their demand for a separate performance measure on vulnerable road users was not included. \u201cOnce again, bicyclists have been left out,\u201d said Bike League President Andy Clarke in a blog post Tuesday. \u201cWe know that without a specific target to focus the attention of state DOTs and USDOT on reducing bicyclist and pedestrian deaths within the overall number \u2014 we get lost in the shuffle.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMore people dying? No problem \u2014 just keep driving!<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/03\/14\/fhwa-proposes-to-let-states-fail-their-own-safety-goals-with-impunity\/\">https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/03\/14\/fhwa-proposes-to-let-states-fail-their-own-safety-goals-with-impunity\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog Secretary Anthony Foxx has made clear that safety \u2014 and specifically, safety for bicyclists and pedestrians \u2014 is a priority of his administration. If that\u2019s true, his administration sure has a funny way of showing it. The Federal Highway Administration\u2019s proposal on safety performance measures allows states to fail to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290611723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FHWA Proposes to Let States Fail Their Own Safety Goals With Impunity&#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-290611723","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\/290611723","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=290611723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290611723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290611723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290611723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290611723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}