{"id":59,"date":"2005-07-26T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:11","slug":"slow-street-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Street Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving?<\/a> looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable Streets” (small pdf) <\/a> which shows that roads with wide sidewalks and streetscape treatments such as trees are safer because the busy street scene causes drivers to slow down. The response from City staff quoted in the Star seems defensive.<\/p>\n

Lawsuits cost city $49 million<\/a> reveals the City’s Lawsuit settlement history. It turns out that about half the settlements — $24.3 million — were agreed to by the City’s transportation division. Primarily claims by pedestrians who have fallen on icy or snowy streets. Sounds like the City would be better off spending that $24 million maintaining the sidewalks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable Streets” (small pdf) which shows that roads with wide sidewalks and streetscape treatments such as trees are safer because the busy street scene causes drivers to slow down. The response from City staff quotedContinue reading “Slow Street Movement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,20,6],"tags":[418,416,12,405,417,391],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-traffic","category-urban-design","category-walking","tag-eric-dumbaugh","tag-pdf","tag-planning","tag-the-star","tag-transportation-division","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSlow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable Streets” (small pdf) which shows that roads with wide sidewalks and streetscape treatments such as trees are safer because the busy street scene causes drivers to slow down. The response from City staff quotedContinue reading "Slow Street Movement"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-07-26T13:17:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-21T19:51:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Hardwicke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris Hardwicke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/\",\"name\":\"Slow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2005-07-26T13:17:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-21T19:51:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/4303403aa6a18878a0cc09117724223d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Slow Street Movement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Toronto\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Toronto Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/4303403aa6a18878a0cc09117724223d\",\"name\":\"Chris Hardwicke\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f63b251901d85d1fc93f4234cd91751?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f63b251901d85d1fc93f4234cd91751?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chris Hardwicke\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.urbanism.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/chris-hardwicke\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Slow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Slow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto","og_description":"The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable Streets” (small pdf) which shows that roads with wide sidewalks and streetscape treatments such as trees are safer because the busy street scene causes drivers to slow down. The response from City staff quotedContinue reading \"Slow Street Movement\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Toronto","article_published_time":"2005-07-26T13:17:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-21T19:51:11+00:00","author":"Chris Hardwicke","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chris Hardwicke","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/","name":"Slow Street Movement - Spacing Toronto","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website"},"datePublished":"2005-07-26T13:17:04+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-21T19:51:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/4303403aa6a18878a0cc09117724223d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/26\/slow-street-movement\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Slow Street Movement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/","name":"Spacing Toronto","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Toronto Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/4303403aa6a18878a0cc09117724223d","name":"Chris Hardwicke","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f63b251901d85d1fc93f4234cd91751?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f63b251901d85d1fc93f4234cd91751?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Chris Hardwicke"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.urbanism.org"],"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/chris-hardwicke\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39009,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/39009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}