{"id":392238635,"date":"2017-06-06T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=392238635"},"modified":"2017-06-06T19:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T19:10:35","slug":"houston-police-set-up-stings-to-catch-drivers-who-endanger-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=392238635","title":{"rendered":"Houston Police Set Up Stings To Catch Drivers Who Endanger Cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Paulsen, Houston Press<\/p>\n<p>Six bike riders have been killed in the Houston area so far this year,&nbsp;according to advocacy group BikeHouston, but the Houston Police Department is now setting up regular stings for drivers who endanger cyclists. <\/p>\n<p>In March, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he&#8217;d start going after drivers who pass bikes without the minimum three feet of space, using plainclothes bike cops equipped with a high-tech &#8220;C3FT&#8221; device. It&#8217;s part of a push by a number of local politicians, including Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, to make Houston safer for cyclists.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/news\/houston-police-enforce-bike-passing-ordinance-9426696<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Paulsen, Houston Press Six bike riders have been killed in the Houston area so far this year,&nbsp;according to advocacy group BikeHouston, but the Houston Police Department is now setting up regular stings for drivers who endanger cyclists. In March, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced he&#8217;d start going after drivers who pass bikes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=392238635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Houston Police Set Up Stings To Catch Drivers Who Endanger Cyclists&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392238635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392238635","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=392238635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392238635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392238635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392238635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392238635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}