{"id":362441833,"date":"2016-06-26T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=362441833"},"modified":"2016-06-26T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:17:13","slug":"slower-speed-limits-give-cities-a-new-attitude-about-biking-walking-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=362441833","title":{"rendered":"Slower Speed Limits Give Cities a New Attitude About Biking, Walking, Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY ANNA CLARK, Next City<br \/>\nEdinburgh, Scotland, is rolling out a 20 mph speed limit on 80 percent of its roads. (Photo by Martin Abegglen)<br \/>\nAs more U.S. cities embrace the Vision Zero approach to curtailing traffic and ensuring pedestrian safety, there\u2019s plenty of compelling data in favor of slow roads coming out of Edinburgh, Scotland. The numbers show how lower speed limits can change drivers\u2019 attitudes about bicyclists \u2014 and even let city-dwellers breathe a bit easier thanks to air quality improvement.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/nextcity.org\/daily\/entry\/slow-speed-limits-cities-edinburgh-20mph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ANNA CLARK, Next City Edinburgh, Scotland, is rolling out a 20 mph speed limit on 80 percent of its roads. (Photo by Martin Abegglen) As more U.S. cities embrace the Vision Zero approach to curtailing traffic and ensuring pedestrian safety, there\u2019s plenty of compelling data in favor of slow roads coming out of Edinburgh, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=362441833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slower Speed Limits Give Cities a New Attitude About Biking, Walking, Breathing&#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-362441833","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\/362441833","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=362441833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362441833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362441833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362441833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362441833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}