{"id":360281055,"date":"2016-06-01T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=360281055"},"modified":"2016-06-01T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T22:04:15","slug":"assistance-in-educating-engineers-on-the-flexibility-in-the-green-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=360281055","title":{"rendered":"Assistance in educating engineers on the flexibility in the Green Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;AASHTO should provide guidance to state DOTs and other users of the Green Book regarding flexibility in design&#8230;This guidance should assist in educating engineers and designers on the flexibility inherent in the Green Book, as well as new and additional guidance on specific design issues&#8230; and This guidance should address designing in and for a multi-modal transportation system&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways May 25, 2016 Direction on Flexibility in Design Standards Resolution: https:\/\/bit.ly\/1PikhNT<br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &#038; Walking.<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: IMHO our state is overly generous to cars and stingy to cyclists in designs they approve to get state\/federal money for bike facilities. Take Roland Ave for example, per ASHTON the minimum width for cyclists is 5 feet and for cars it&#8217;s 10 feet.  So what do we get? Cars get 10.5 feet and cyclists get 4 feet. I hope this new resolution will help us.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;AASHTO should provide guidance to state DOTs and other users of the Green Book regarding flexibility in design&#8230;This guidance should assist in educating engineers and designers on the flexibility inherent in the Green Book, as well as new and additional guidance on specific design issues&#8230; and This guidance should address designing in and for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=360281055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assistance in educating engineers on the flexibility in the Green Book&#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-360281055","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\/360281055","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=360281055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360281055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360281055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360281055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360281055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}