{"id":398,"date":"2015-04-16T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billriggs.name\/uncategorized\/pedestrian-zones-and-bike-lanes-increased-access\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:36:00","slug":"pedestrian-zones-and-bike-lanes-increased-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pedestrian zones and bike lanes, increased access to green space, investing in sustainable infrastructure \u2014 all may lead to a more enlightened metropolis. But according to a study by two academics, one of the easiest, cheapest route to improving a city may be re-routing, specifically, eliminating one-way streets. John Gilderbloom and William Riggs&rsquo; paper Love is a Two-Way Street suggests that, while it may not seem like such a dramatic change, altering traffic patterns can make a massive impact, reinforcing their notion that &ldquo;streets are the lifeblood of cities.&rdquo; Their research shows the shift cuts the risk of collision or injury in half.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/curbed.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/13\/one-way-to-fix-our-cities-is-to-eliminate-the-oneway.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/curbed.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/13\/one-way-to-fix-our-cities-is-to-eliminate-the-oneway.php<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian zones and bike lanes, increased access to green space, investing in sustainable infrastructure \u2014 all may lead to a more enlightened metropolis. But according to a study by two academics, one of the easiest, cheapest route to improving a city may be re-routing, specifically, eliminating one-way streets. John Gilderbloom and William Riggs&rsquo; paper Love&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=398\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Untitled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,156,154,34],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-complete-streets","tag-conversions","tag-two-way-streets","tag-urban-design","post_format-post-format-quote","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}