{"id":2621,"date":"2022-04-28T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:37:14","slug":"pavement-art-fewer-road-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/pavement-art-fewer-road-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavement Art = Fewer Road Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? \u00a0Bloomberg Philanthropies studied traffic patters at 17 pavement art installations. Total vehicle crashes fell by 17%.  Vehicle crashes involving pedestrians and\u00a0cyclists fell by 50%. 38% decrease in pedestrians crossing against the walk signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The pavement art reduced crashes while overall in the US 17% more pedestrians have been killed  by a vehicle in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? it&#8217;s working. &#8220;a new intersection in Kansas City, Missouri that received an Asphalt Arts Initiative grant reduced overall vehicle speeds by 45%, shortened pedestrian crossing distances by 50%, and reduced noise levels by 10 to 12 decibels&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2022\/04\/road-art-projects-reduced-vehicle-crashes-involving-pedestrians-50\/365642\/\">Route Fifty | On Streets With Pavement Art, Study Finds Drop in Crashes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? \u00a0Bloomberg Philanthropies studied traffic patters at 17 pavement art installations. Total vehicle crashes fell by 17%. Vehicle crashes involving pedestrians and\u00a0cyclists fell by 50%. 38% decrease in pedestrians crossing against the walk signal. Why is this important? The pavement art reduced crashes while overall in the US 17% more pedestrians have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}