{"id":406317761,"date":"2017-11-16T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406317761"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:02:41","slug":"the-myth-of-a-distracted-walking-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406317761","title":{"rendered":"THE MYTH OF A DISTRACTED WALKING CRISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MIKE BOOS, TriTag<br \/>\n&#8230;  It\u2019s the latest in a series of so-called \u201czombie walking\u201d laws intended to crack down on the alleged scourge of \u201cdistracted walking.\u201d<br \/>\nIn any legislation intended to alter behaviour, three questions should be asked. First and foremost: is the issue actually a problem? Second, will the proposed measures actually work to address the issue? Finally, would the measures have any other consequences that should be weighed against the assumed benefits?<br \/>\nSo, is distracted walking a pressing issue? Anecdotally, many drivers will tell you it is. But what do the numbers show? We\u2019ve seen a steady rise in distracted driving collisions as mobile phones become more prevalent, so we might expect a similar trend with walking. We\u2019ve plotted both over the last two decades in Ontario:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tritag.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/the-myth-of-a-distracted-walking-crisis\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MIKE BOOS, TriTag &#8230; It\u2019s the latest in a series of so-called \u201czombie walking\u201d laws intended to crack down on the alleged scourge of \u201cdistracted walking.\u201d In any legislation intended to alter behaviour, three questions should be asked. First and foremost: is the issue actually a problem? Second, will the proposed measures actually work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406317761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE MYTH OF A DISTRACTED WALKING CRISIS&#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-406317761","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\/406317761","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=406317761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406317761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406317761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406317761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406317761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}