{"id":366,"date":"2010-05-04T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-05-04T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:23:23","slug":"classic-portland-waste-of-243000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"The goggles &#8211; they do nothing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Green safety bike-boxes &#8216;do nothing&#8217;:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/thinking-outside-the-bike-box\/Content?oid=2122941\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/thinking-outside-the-bike-box\/Content?oid=2122941<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Portland paid $200,000 to paint little green bike boxes at a few intersections to curb bike\/car accidents.\u00a0 When this idea came up &#8211; a great number of voices lauded it.\u00a0 Well, after an actual independent study &#8211; it&#8217;s proven they don&#8217;t do much either way &#8211; mostly because there were statistically so few accidents to begin with involving intersections such as these.\u00a0 Maybe it helps raise awareness of bikers by putting them in front of you?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know, but glad someone is actually studying the effectiveness of these efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green safety bike-boxes &#8216;do nothing&#8217;: http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/thinking-outside-the-bike-box\/Content?oid=2122941 Portland paid $200,000 to paint little green bike boxes at a few intersections to curb bike\/car accidents.\u00a0 When this idea came up &#8211; a great number of voices lauded it.\u00a0 Well, after an actual independent study &#8211; it&#8217;s proven they don&#8217;t do much either way &#8211; mostly because there were statistically so few accidents to begin with involving intersections such as these.\u00a0 Maybe it helps raise awareness of bikers by putting them in front&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=366\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-5U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}