{"id":302990047,"date":"2014-08-08T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=302990047"},"modified":"2014-08-08T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T19:54:07","slug":"pushing-buttons-gets-pedestrians-nowhere-in-downtown-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=302990047","title":{"rendered":"Pushing buttons gets pedestrians nowhere in downtown Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Can you imagine as a pedestrian being accommodated automatically at intersections just like a car? (I will note this is similar to my request on the Reisterstown streetscape,) Phase out pedestrian &quot;beg buttons&quot; makes a lot of sense as this article points out.]<br \/>\n*****************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy DANIELLE GROBMEIER, Dallas News<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMany other cities, including New York and Boston, have gone to pre-timed lights or similar systems that they say ensure a safer and more consistent traffic flow at crosswalks. Doing so means the push buttons become purely decorative or, as described by a New Yorker, \u201cmechanical placebos.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe said busy intersections would have push buttons deteriorate faster. And if they\u2019re mechanical buttons, that could happen in a little over a year.<br \/>\nMajumdar said the city might get complaints about the nonworking buttons [they are not fixed unless someone complains] But he said the pre-timed signals are safer for pedestrians.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/metro\/20140730-pushing-buttons-gets-pedestrians-nowhere-in-downtown-dallas.ece\">https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/metro\/20140730-pushing-buttons-gets-pedestrians-nowhere-in-downtown-dallas.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Can you imagine as a pedestrian being accommodated automatically at intersections just like a car? (I will note this is similar to my request on the Reisterstown streetscape,) Phase out pedestrian &quot;beg buttons&quot; makes a lot of sense as this article points out.] ***************************************************************************************************************** By DANIELLE GROBMEIER, Dallas News &#8230; Many other cities, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=302990047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pushing buttons gets pedestrians nowhere in downtown Dallas&#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-302990047","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\/302990047","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=302990047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302990047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302990047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302990047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302990047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}