{"id":2013,"date":"2013-03-20T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:17:54","slug":"sharing-the-road-bikes-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the road, bikes &#038; cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of injuries and deaths of bicyclists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/news\/allston_brighton\/2013\/03\/boston_launches_traffic-safety.html?camp=misc:on:fb-page:HLallstonbrighton&#038;dlvrit=135260\" title=\"Boston.com: Comm. Ave. bike lanes\" target=\"_blank\">has prompted the city to take a look<\/a> at the stretch of Commonwealth Avenue between Kenmore Square and Packard Corner.  On an experimental basis, Brighton Avenue will be getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonbikes.org\/2013\/01\/brighton-ave-to-get-priority-treatment\/\" title=\"Boston Bikes: Brighton Ave.\" target=\"_blank\">enhanced shared bike\/car lane markings<\/a>, according to Boston Bikes.  It involves adding signs and markings in phases starting this spring.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wondered if having bike lanes on side streets where possible, rather than main roads, would make for a more relaxing, and safer, road for bike riders.  The few times I have ridden from Oak Square to Kenmore have been harrowing.  On a visit to New York I found traveling along Manhattan&#8217;s avenues on two wheels was similarly scary, while the cross streets were fine.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"Sharing the road, bikes & cars\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=2013\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of injuries and deaths of bicyclists has prompted the city to take a look at the stretch of Commonwealth Avenue between Kenmore Square and Packard Corner. On an experimental basis, Brighton Avenue will be getting enhanced shared bike\/car lane markings, according to Boston Bikes. It involves adding signs and markings in phases starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[291,208,207,181],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allston","tag-allston","tag-bicycle-safety","tag-bicycles","tag-brighton-avenue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}