{"id":385,"date":"2007-10-29T03:14:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T07:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:25:16","slug":"the-scramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"The Scramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC is reporting on a new traffic light timing scheme that will see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2007\/10\/25\/tto-scramble.html\">pedestrians scramble across the road with traffic stopped in all directions<\/a>. I&#8217;m not quite sure what to make of that. I remember in Kanazawa there was an intersection which a few times stopped all car traffic and let pedestrians cross (there were even separate diagonal crossing walk\/don&#8217;t walk signals). It seemed really strange and bizarre at the time. For time when intersections can really build up with a backlog of people waiting to cross, I suppose it could help move the pedestrian traffic. It could also make crossing safer since cars won&#8217;t be able to turn during the scramble, which is where most close calls seem to come from. But I can&#8217;t really say if it would actually help the pedestrians as much as I would guess it would impede the car traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC is reporting on a new traffic light timing scheme that will see pedestrians scramble across the road with traffic stopped in all directions. I&#8217;m not quite sure what to make of that. I remember in Kanazawa there was an intersection which a few times stopped all car traffic and let pedestrians cross (there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}