{"id":1275,"date":"2010-11-01T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:21:38","slug":"the-portishead-traffic-light-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/1275","title":{"rendered":"The Portishead Traffic Light Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimp.com\/trafficlights\/\">this video<\/a>, the experiment to switch off a notorious set of traffic lights in Portishead was an outstanding success. I missed this at the time but, although it clearly needs a bit of work, it was good enough for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisbristol.co.uk\/news\/Portishead-traffic-lights-set-stay-trial\/article-1394854-detail\/article.html\">experiment to be made permanent<\/a>. Since then two zebra crossings have been introduced making it easier for disabled people, but in an unfortunate retrograde step, they have been put on raised &#8220;traffic calming&#8221; platforms. Now we just need the experiment to be repeated in Bristol itself&mdash;at sensible and appropriate locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see in this video, the experiment to switch off a notorious set of traffic lights in Portishead was an outstanding success. I missed this at the time but, although it clearly needs a bit of work, it was good enough for the experiment to be made permanent. Since then two zebra crossings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}