{"id":309449548,"date":"2014-10-22T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309449548"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:12:28","slug":"portland-shows-how-to-get-more-bang-for-your-traffic-safety-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309449548","title":{"rendered":"Portland Shows How to Get More Bang for Your Traffic Safety Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-author\">\n          by Angie Schmitt,Streets Blog<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31504\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/road-diet-safety.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31504\" alt=\"Three road diets in Portland have prevented a total of 252 collisions. Image: Bike Portland\" src=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/road-diet-safety.png\" width=\"511\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three road diets in Portland have prevented a total of 525 collisions. Graphic: <a href=\"https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2014\/10\/10\/less-500000-three-road-diets-preventing-37-crashes-every-year-112049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bike Portland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>State DOTs like to justify hugely expensive highway-widening projects, like Milwaukee\u2019s $1.7 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/04\/22\/earth-day-resolution-stop-building-projects-like-the-zoo-interchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoo Interchange<\/a>, partly on the grounds of safety. But if we really want to get a big bang for our transportation safety buck, fixing city streets makes a lot more sense.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Andersen at <a href=\"https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2014\/10\/10\/less-500000-three-road-diets-preventing-37-crashes-every-year-112049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bike Portland<\/a>&nbsp;reports that three local road diets completed between 1997 and 2003 cost a combined total of just $500,000 and have prevented more than 500 collisions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2014\/10\/14\/portland-shows-how-to-get-more-bang-for-your-traffic-safety-buck\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2014\/10\/14\/portland-shows-how-to-get-more-bang-for-your-traffic-safety-buck\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt,Streets Blog Three road diets in Portland have prevented a total of 525 collisions. Graphic: Bike Portland State DOTs like to justify hugely expensive highway-widening projects, like Milwaukee\u2019s $1.7 billion Zoo Interchange, partly on the grounds of safety. But if we really want to get a big bang for our transportation safety buck, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309449548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portland Shows How to Get More Bang for Your Traffic Safety Buck&#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-309449548","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\/309449548","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=309449548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309449548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309449548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309449548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309449548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}