{"id":16909,"date":"2021-07-21T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/target\/three-turning-restrictions-cities-need-to-put-on-drivers\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:43:07","slug":"good-ideas-change-3-driving-rules-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-ideas-change-3-driving-rules-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEAS: Change 3 Driving Rules to Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\r\n<p>Across the country, about 26 percent of fatal car crashes that claim pedestrian lives occur at intersections where walkers are supposed to protected by crosswalks, even if they\u2019re unmarked; for cyclists, the percentage is a whopping 37 percent. Many such crashes happen because drivers fail to perform legal turns safely \u2014 and many legal turns are simply dangerous.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here are three sharable takes from advocates on the turning restrictions they think cities should put in place now \u2014 and why.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2021\/06\/28\/three-turning-restrictions-cities-need-to-put-on-drivers\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202021-06-29%20Smart%20Cities%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:35159%5D&amp;utm_term=Smart%20Cities%20Dive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE at usa.streetsblog.org<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GET INVOLVED LOCALLY:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/charlestonmoves.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charleston Moves<\/a> do amazing work on modality issues in the Lowcountry, particularly in the area of safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. Connect with them and be a part of making Charleston a better and safer place&#8230; for everyone.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16971 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pedestrians-crossing.jpg\" alt=\"pedestrians-crossing\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pedestrians-crossing.jpg 640w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pedestrians-crossing-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/426;\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, about 26 percent of fatal car crashes that claim pedestrian lives occur at intersections where walkers are supposed to<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-ideas-change-3-driving-rules-to-save-lives\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":16910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,3,34,26,5,53,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17074,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16909\/revisions\/17074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}