{"id":309347211,"date":"2014-10-21T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309347211"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:46:51","slug":"one-easy-thing-any-city-can-do-to-be-more-pedestrian-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309347211","title":{"rendered":"ONE EASY THING ANY CITY CAN DO TO BE MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to an Oct. 7th Wired article, &quot;There are many ways cities can make their public spaces safer and more inviting for pedestrians&#8230; But there is one easy, cost-effective, and quick thing just about any city can do to make themselves more pedestrian-friendly: Use building and landscape details to make people feel welcome and comfortable.<br \/>\n&quot;The idea comes from a report by the non-profit SPUR (originally called the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association), which laid out seven ways to make any city more pedestrian-friendly. (See summary at <a href=\"https:\/\/wrd.cm\/1vNpr6j\">https:\/\/wrd.cm\/1vNpr6j<\/a>) Most of the ideas required big changes to existing infrastructure, but this one is dead simple&#8230;.&quot;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/wrd.cm\/1y1J8vh\">https:\/\/wrd.cm\/1y1J8vh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to an Oct. 7th Wired article, &quot;There are many ways cities can make their public spaces safer and more inviting for pedestrians&#8230; But there is one easy, cost-effective, and quick thing just about any city can do to make themselves more pedestrian-friendly: Use building and landscape details to make people feel welcome and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309347211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ONE EASY THING ANY CITY CAN DO TO BE MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY&#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-309347211","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\/309347211","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=309347211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309347211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309347211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309347211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309347211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}