{"id":308259763,"date":"2014-10-08T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=308259763"},"modified":"2014-10-08T19:42:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:42:43","slug":"why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=308259763","title":{"rendered":"Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JEFF SPECK, City Lab<br \/>\nStates and counties believe that wider lanes are safer. And in this belief, they are dead wrong.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen lanes are built too wide, pedestrians are forced to walk further across streets on which cars are moving too fast and bikes don&#8217;t fit.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;Yeah, you&#8217;ve got your studies that say that 10-foot lanes are safer than 12-foot lanes. But I&#8217;ve got a pile of studies this high,&quot; he insisted, waving at his hip, &quot;that say the opposite.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;Wonderful,&quot; I said. &quot;May I see them?&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;No. They&#8217;re from the early days. I threw them out.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2014\/10\/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now\/381117\/\">https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2014\/10\/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now\/381117\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JEFF SPECK, City Lab States and counties believe that wider lanes are safer. And in this belief, they are dead wrong. &#8230; When lanes are built too wide, pedestrians are forced to walk further across streets on which cars are moving too fast and bikes don&#8217;t fit. &#8230; &quot;Yeah, you&#8217;ve got your studies that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=308259763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now&#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-308259763","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\/308259763","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=308259763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308259763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308259763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308259763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308259763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}