{"id":358912785,"date":"2016-05-17T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=358912785"},"modified":"2016-05-17T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:59:45","slug":"usdot-to-shut-down-nations-roads-citing-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=358912785","title":{"rendered":"USDOT to shut down nation\u2019s roads, citing safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Hertz, City Observatory<br \/>\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Citing safety concerns, today Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced he was contemplating the closure of roads to all private vehicles in nearly every city in the country until he could assure the nation\u2019s drivers that they would be safe behind the wheel.<br \/>\nThe announcement comes on the heels of comments by Secretary Foxx that the Department of Transportation may shut down the Washington Metro heavy rail system because of ongoing safety issues.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gFFns3aMGL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cityobservatory.org\/usdot-to-shut-down-nations-roads-citing-safety-concerns\/\">USDOT to shut down nation&#8217;s roads, citing safety concerns<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;USDOT to shut down nation&#8217;s roads, citing safety concerns&#8221; &#8212; City Observatory\" src=\"https:\/\/cityobservatory.org\/usdot-to-shut-down-nations-roads-citing-safety-concerns\/embed\/#?secret=hMQnmVcziR#?secret=gFFns3aMGL\" data-secret=\"gFFns3aMGL\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: What if our road system was run like Washington&#8217;s Metro and the loss of life was a concern?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Hertz, City Observatory WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Citing safety concerns, today Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced he was contemplating the closure of roads to all private vehicles in nearly every city in the country until he could assure the nation\u2019s drivers that they would be safe behind the wheel. The announcement comes on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=358912785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USDOT to shut down nation\u2019s roads, citing safety concerns&#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-358912785","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\/358912785","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=358912785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358912785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358912785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358912785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358912785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}