{"id":90,"date":"2015-01-14T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/14\/trend-how-to-lower-traffic-fatalities-with-love-from-sweden\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:47:00","slug":"trend-how-to-lower-traffic-fatalities-with-love-from-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-how-to-lower-traffic-fatalities-with-love-from-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: How to Lower Traffic Fatalities With Love From Sweden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record low number of Swedes died\u00a0in traffic accidents in 2014. Sweden&#8217;s traffic fatalities run at 3 per 100,000. In the US, it is 11 per 100,000. \u00a0Sweden&#8217;s fatality rate is nearly 1\/4 of the U.S.&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>What did the Swedes do right that has so many Americans studying Swedish transportation?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineering: roads that are designed for safety, not speed.<\/li>\n<li>Lower speed limits in crowded areas<\/li>\n<li>Safer pedestrian crossings with bridges and flashing lights\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordstjernan.com\/news\/briefs\/6810\/?utm_source=Swedish+News+List&amp;utm_campaign=e1ecd96d75-sweden_today_03%2F15&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6ea5ce8dd7-e1ecd96d75-267884753\">Nordstjernan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record low number of Swedes died\u00a0in traffic accidents in 2014. Sweden&#8217;s traffic fatalities run at 3 per 100,000. In the US, it is 11 per 100,000. \u00a0Sweden&#8217;s fatality rate is nearly 1\/4 of the U.S.&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>What did the Swedes do right that has so many Americans studying Swedish transportation?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineering: roads that are designed for safety, not speed.<\/li>\n<li>Lower speed limits in crowded areas<\/li>\n<li>Safer pedestrian crossings with bridges and flashing lights\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><...<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}