{"id":3959,"date":"2014-11-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2014-12-05T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:01:30","slug":"toronto-to-narrow-traffic-lanes-in-hopes-of-increasing-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-to-narrow-traffic-lanes-in-hopes-of-increasing-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto to narrow traffic lanes in hopes of increasing safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2014, Globe and Mail (TORONTO, ONTARIO)<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will narrow many of the city\u2019s traffic lanes in a bid to increase safety by reining in speeds while freeing up space for bicycle lanes or wider sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>The city has just finished a new policy for lane widths, guidelines that will be rolled out gradually across Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>It will mean that, over a period of years, the lanes on streets across the city will be redrawn. A city official said current widths can encourage drivers to go faster than necessary. The new lanes will generally range from 3 to 4.3 metres, depending on location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/toronto-to-narrow-traffic-lanes-in-hopes-of-increasing-safety\/article21743109\/\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2014, Globe and Mail (TORONTO, ONTARIO) Toronto will narrow many of the city\u2019s traffic lanes in a bid to increase safety by reining in speeds while freeing up space for bicycle lanes or wider sidewalks. The city has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-road-safety-news-digest","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}