{"id":222,"date":"2007-12-25T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/a-green-light-for-common-sense-washingtonpostcom"},"modified":"2007-12-25T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T05:03:36","slug":"a-green-light-for-common-sense-washingtonpostcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/a-green-light-for-common-sense-washingtonpostcom","title":{"rendered":"Improving traffic by removing traffic rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towns in Europe are trying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/23\/AR2007122302487.html?nav=rss_world\">innovative ways<\/a> innovative ways of handling traffic on their roads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The usual remedies &#8212; from safety crossings to speed traps &#8212; did no good. So the citizens of Bohmte decided to take a big risk. Since September, they&#8217;ve been tearing up the sidewalks, removing curbs and erasing street markers as part of a radical plan to abandon nearly all traffic regulations and force people to rely on common sense and courtesy instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as I can tell, we have implemented this system in Pune already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towns in Europe are trying innovative ways innovative ways of handling traffic on their roads: The usual remedies &#8212; from safety crossings to speed traps &#8212; did no good. So the citizens of Bohmte decided to take a big risk. Since September, they&#8217;ve been tearing up the sidewalks, removing curbs and erasing street markers as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/a-green-light-for-common-sense-washingtonpostcom\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improving traffic by removing traffic rules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}