{"id":324078958,"date":"2015-04-09T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=324078958"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:55:58","slug":"the-critical-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=324078958","title":{"rendered":"The Critical Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: I&#8217;m posting this because I think the speed limit on the most northern part of Roland Ave (where Tom was killed) is too high. Why does anyone &#8220;need&#8221; to travel 35 mph for ~ 1\/2 mile when the rest of the street is 25 mph?]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>By Bill Lindeke, Streets MN<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that for a good urban street, this muddy \u201cmiddle ground\u201d between \u2018walkable\u2019 and \u2018driver\u2019s paradise\u2019 can sometimes be the worst of both worlds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/speed-visual-focus-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">The Critical Difference Between 30 and 20<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m talking about traffic speed. If you look at the average speed of traffic on a urban commercial streets, there are a lot of things that begin to change when you slow down cars from the 30 to 35 mile per hour range into the 20 to 25 mile per hour range. Most importantly, perception, reaction time, and crash outcomes are far better at 20 than at 30 mph, while traffic flow doesn\u2019t seem to change very much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ped-safety-speed-graph.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streets.mn\/2015\/04\/02\/the-critical-ten\/\">https:\/\/streets.mn\/2015\/04\/02\/the-critical-ten\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I&#8217;m posting this because I think the speed limit on the most northern part of Roland Ave (where Tom was killed) is too high. Why does anyone &#8220;need&#8221; to travel 35 mph for ~ 1\/2 mile when the rest of the street is 25 mph?] By Bill Lindeke, Streets MN The problem is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=324078958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Critical Ten&#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-324078958","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\/324078958","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=324078958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324078958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324078958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324078958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324078958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}