{"id":385395301,"date":"2017-03-19T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385395301"},"modified":"2017-03-19T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T14:15:01","slug":"bicyclists-arent-as-awful-as-drivers-seem-to-think-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385395301","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclists aren\u2019t as awful as drivers seem to think, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DANIKA WORTHINGTON, Denver Post<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cScofflaw bicyclists tend to be rational individuals trying to function safely and efficiently, even if it means they are doing so illegally, given the social norms of where they live and the transportation system put in front of them,\u201d the study read.<br \/>\nIronically, studies show that drivers and pedestrians break the same, if not more, traffic laws than bicyclists do. But Johnson said many drivers don\u2019t bike so lack empathy for two-wheelers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Bq4ni7uR0k\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/03\/15\/bicyclists-drivers-study\/\">Bicyclists aren&#8217;t as awful as drivers seem to think, study says<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Bicyclists aren&#8217;t as awful as drivers seem to think, study says&#8221; &#8212; The Denver Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/03\/15\/bicyclists-drivers-study\/embed\/#?secret=FfnenQ9dcd#?secret=Bq4ni7uR0k\" data-secret=\"Bq4ni7uR0k\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Some of the craziest accusations I have seen are where people flipping out over cyclists not &#8220;stopping&#8221; (because they did not put their foot on the ground) but meanwhile motorist were not  coming to a complete stop either. My assertion is that a car going 30mph slowing to 8mph looks safer to motorists than a cyclists going 10mph slowing to 8mph. And that&#8217;s just one example where the same thing has different safety perceptions depending on the bias of the observer.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DANIKA WORTHINGTON, Denver Post &#8230; \u201cScofflaw bicyclists tend to be rational individuals trying to function safely and efficiently, even if it means they are doing so illegally, given the social norms of where they live and the transportation system put in front of them,\u201d the study read. Ironically, studies show that drivers and pedestrians &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385395301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicyclists aren\u2019t as awful as drivers seem to think, study says&#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-385395301","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\/385395301","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=385395301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385395301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385395301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385395301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385395301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}