{"id":1800,"date":"2019-07-09T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:22:22","slug":"statement-on-cyclist-and-pedestrian-safety-by-speaker-corey-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/07\/09\/1800\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT ON CYCLIST AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY BY SPEAKER COREY JOHNSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is heartbreaking that New Yorkers feel so unsafe walking<br \/>\nand biking in our city right now that pedestrians, cyclists, and transit<br \/>\nadvocates feel they must stage a die-in in order for something to change. This<br \/>\nis why I introduced a bill that would require a Master Plan for New York City<br \/>\nStreets that would set aggressive benchmarks for protected bike lanes, bus<br \/>\nlanes, and pedestrian space. We need to break the car culture that is choking<br \/>\nour streets and literally killing people. This bill is how we are going to do<br \/>\nit. We must not stop fighting until every New Yorker can move around our city<br \/>\nsafely and efficiently. I hope you\u2019ll fight with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3954291&amp;GUID=D37BA0B0-9AB6-434B-A82E-E49A7895A1A4&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\">Click<br \/>\nhere to view Master Plan for City Streets legislation<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is heartbreaking that New Yorkers feel so unsafe walking<br \/>\nand biking in our city right now that pedestrians, cyclists, and transit<br \/>\nadvocates feel they must stage a die-in in order for something to change. This<br \/>\nis why I introduced a bill that would require a Master Plan for New York City<br \/>\nStreets that would set aggressive benchmarks for protected bike lanes, bus<br \/>\nlanes, and pedestrian space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/07\/09\/1800\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}