{"id":373156601,"date":"2016-10-28T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=373156601"},"modified":"2016-10-28T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:36:41","slug":"reality-check-distracted-walking-isnt-a-big-problem-distracted-driving-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=373156601","title":{"rendered":"Reality check: Distracted walking isn\u2019t a big problem. (Distracted driving is.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Cain,  Global News<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn Toronto, pedestrian collisions where the pedestrian was coded as inattentive have fallen since 2005, figures released by the city to Global News show. A report by the city\u2019s medical officer of health showed that only 13 per cent of pedestrians hit in the city were inattentive for any reason.<br \/>\n\u201cThe difficulty is, with cars, what they represent, based on their speed, their size, their weight,\u201d Brown says. \u201cIf you are handing a weapon, you handle it with care. You can\u2019t have distractions, you can\u2019t have multitasking \u2014 you\u2019ve got to have one hundred per cent of your cognitive ability.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7f1YW1W4X8\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2640893\/reality-check-distracted-walking-isnt-a-big-problem-distracted-driving-is\/\">Reality check: Distracted walking isn\u2019t a big problem. (Distracted driving is.)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Reality check: Distracted walking isn\u2019t a big problem. (Distracted driving is.)&#8221; &#8212; Global News\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2640893\/reality-check-distracted-walking-isnt-a-big-problem-distracted-driving-is\/embed\/#?secret=n40fOA58fG#?secret=7f1YW1W4X8\" data-secret=\"7f1YW1W4X8\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Cain, Global News &#8230; In Toronto, pedestrian collisions where the pedestrian was coded as inattentive have fallen since 2005, figures released by the city to Global News show. A report by the city\u2019s medical officer of health showed that only 13 per cent of pedestrians hit in the city were inattentive for any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=373156601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reality check: Distracted walking isn\u2019t a big problem. (Distracted driving is.)&#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-373156601","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\/373156601","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=373156601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373156601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373156601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373156601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373156601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}