{"id":67962678,"date":"2007-02-26T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=67962678"},"modified":"2007-02-26T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T14:31:18","slug":"on-potentially-deadly-streets-pedestrians-and-drivers-alike-must-proceed-with-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=67962678","title":{"rendered":"On Potentially Deadly Streets, Pedestrians and Drivers Alike Must Proceed With Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This article could be written about Baltimore as well.]<br \/>\nby Marc Fisher &#8211; Washington Post<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDespite the jokes about how being hit by a bus is the quickest, easiest way to go, the blend of driver arrogance and pedestrian recklessness we&#8217;ve seen on local streets is downright scary. I watch my own kids crossing the street, and I realize that they, like me and probably most of you, too, are alive through some weird combination of luck and a sixth sense about when cars might be hurtling down the street. The kids&#8217; necks seem to be wired to turn in one direction at most; looking both ways is far too complex a maneuver.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just kids, of course. I stood at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, where two women were killed by a Metrobus this month, and watched pedestrians. Any relationship between the walk light and when people decided to cross the avenue was purely coincidental.<br \/>\nAnd the new &quot;Turning Traffic Must Yield to Pedestrians&quot; signs that the District put up for the benefit of Seventh Street motorists could just as well be pictures of a bunny for all the impact they&#8217;re having.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/24\/AR2007022401190.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/24\/AR2007022401190.html<\/a> oldId.20070226143118490<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This article could be written about Baltimore as well.] by Marc Fisher &#8211; Washington Post &#8230; Despite the jokes about how being hit by a bus is the quickest, easiest way to go, the blend of driver arrogance and pedestrian recklessness we&#8217;ve seen on local streets is downright scary. I watch my own kids crossing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=67962678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Potentially Deadly Streets, Pedestrians and Drivers Alike Must Proceed With Caution&#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-67962678","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\/67962678","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=67962678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67962678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67962678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67962678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67962678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}