{"id":2174,"date":"2016-09-28T20:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:41:01","slug":"west-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/09\/28\/west-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"West Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a presentation this evening on some modernization being planned for\u00a0the roads through West Newton Square. The most surprising finding they presented is that reducing the number of through travel lanes from 2 to 1 throughout would have little to no impact on traffic, leaving a ton of extra room for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, and more parking. But for me, the most highly anticipated change is fixing the intersection pictured here. I&#8217;m including a Google Maps screenshot of the current conditions for your reference (FB folks, click through for whichever did not get shown with my post).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2175\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"2016-09-28-19-57-32\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-19.57.32-1600x901.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/wnewton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2176\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/wnewton-600x461.png\" alt=\"wnewton\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/wnewton-600x461.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/wnewton-200x154.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/wnewton.png 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a presentation this evening on some modernization being planned for\u00a0the roads through West Newton Square. The most surprising finding they presented is that reducing the number of through travel lanes from 2 to 1 throughout would have little to no impact on traffic, leaving a ton of extra room for bike lanes, wider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/09\/28\/west-newton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Newton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}