{"id":385859554,"date":"2017-03-24T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385859554"},"modified":"2017-03-24T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:12:34","slug":"ohio-gets-a-3-foot-passing-law-and-a-better-safety-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385859554","title":{"rendered":"Ohio gets a 3&#8242; foot passing law and a better safety message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law states that when a bicyclist is in the roadway or riding on the yellow line along the shoulder, motorists will need to cross the center lane to pass a bicyclist safely. And if the traffic is not clear, or a blind hill is approaching, the motorist would be legally required to slow down behind the bicyclist until it\u2019s safe to pass.<\/p>\n<p>[From https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/new-law-starts-today-drivers-must-move-over-pass-bicyclists\/LDAsIKqd7T96mn6bHvCjfL\/ ]<\/p>\n<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Maryland&#8217;s law says basically pass safely unless&#8230; And if you don&#8217;t understand the legal technical terms (like too many police) it might as well say pass safely unless you can&#8217;t. But my main point in sharing this they specified that sometimes it is necessary to slow down and wait behind a cyclists till you can pass safely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law states that when a bicyclist is in the roadway or riding on the yellow line along the shoulder, motorists will need to cross the center lane to pass a bicyclist safely. And if the traffic is not clear, or a blind hill is approaching, the motorist would be legally required to slow down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=385859554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ohio gets a 3&#8242; foot passing law and a better safety message&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385859554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385859554","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=385859554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385859554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385859554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385859554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385859554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}