{"id":414640811,"date":"2018-02-21T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=414640811"},"modified":"2018-02-21T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:00:11","slug":"a-new-traffic-safety-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=414640811","title":{"rendered":"A New Traffic Safety Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Todd Litman, Planetizen<br \/>\nDespite numerous traffic safety programs, traffic death rates have not declined in a decade and recently started to increase. We can do better! A new paradigm identifies additional safety strategies that reduce both crash rates and risk exposure.<br \/>\nDuring this holiday season thousands of North Americans will be unnecessarily killed or severely injured in crashes. We could do much better!<br \/>\nThe United States has the highest traffic fatality rate among peer countries, nearly three times the European average and easily twice the averages of Australia and Canada.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/96324<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Todd Litman, Planetizen Despite numerous traffic safety programs, traffic death rates have not declined in a decade and recently started to increase. We can do better! A new paradigm identifies additional safety strategies that reduce both crash rates and risk exposure. During this holiday season thousands of North Americans will be unnecessarily killed or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=414640811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Traffic Safety Paradigm&#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-414640811","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\/414640811","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=414640811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414640811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414640811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414640811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414640811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}