{"id":79439,"date":"2018-06-11T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/how-traffic-signals-favour-cars-and-discourage-walking"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:00:36","slug":"how-traffic-signals-favour-cars-and-discourage-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/how-traffic-signals-favour-cars-and-discourage-walking","title":{"rendered":"How traffic signals favour cars and discourage walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-traffic-signals-favour-cars-and-discourage-walking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need more walkable cities and fewer cars! If aliens came to our planet they would conclude that cars are the dominant species!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Traffic signals give priority to motor vehicles over pedestrians. This inequality undermines many of the stated goals of transport, health and environment policy.<\/p>\n<p>State and city governments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au\/vision\/better-infrastructure\/streets-and-public-places\">say<\/a> they want to encourage walking and biking for many reasons:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-traffic-favour-cars-discourage.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-traffic-favour-cars-discourage.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need more walkable cities and fewer cars! If aliens came to our planet they would conclude that cars are the dominant species! Traffic signals give priority to motor vehicles over pedestrians. This inequality undermines many of the stated goals of transport, health and environment policy. State and city governments say they want to encourage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79466,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439\/revisions\/79466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}