{"id":30129,"date":"2023-11-13T22:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T03:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30129"},"modified":"2023-11-13T22:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T03:05:34","slug":"cities-look-to-copy-montreals-ban-of-right-turns-on-red-but-safety-data-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30129","title":{"rendered":"Cities look to copy Montreal&#8217;s ban of right turns on red, but safety data lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/right-turn-on-red-1-6641819-1699792514249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"126\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In an effort to prevent pedestrian and cyclist deaths, more North American cities are contemplating imitating Montreal by banning drivers from turning right on red lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/cities-look-to-copy-montreal-s-ban-of-right-turns-on-red-but-safety-data-lacking-1.6641818\">Cities look to copy Montreal&#8217;s ban of right turns on red, but safety data lacking<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>hmmm&#8230;  i would have thought data was known and rtor increases pedestrian harm.  article mentions difficult to impement in all situations, might even increase harm to pedestrians.  so do it &#8220;default is NO rtor, sigange will dictate where ok.  like u-turns are generally permitted, with small limited restrictions (too close totunnel, curvem, etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to prevent pedestrian and cyclist deaths, more North American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1019,748,140,1839],"class_list":["post-30129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-driving","tag-montreal","tag-paul","tag-pedestrians","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30132,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129\/revisions\/30132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}