
{"id":13861,"date":"2010-11-18T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:20:52","slug":"citations-to-be-issued-for-pedestrian-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/18\/citations-to-be-issued-for-pedestrian-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Citations to be issued for pedestrian violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC Department of Public Safety has launched a campaign to increase pedestrian safety.<br \/>\nWhile police officers regularly issue both verbal and written warnings, community-response unit officers have started issuing citations to those violating North Carolina pedestrian safety laws.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nCitations for $166 (including $141 in court costs) are being issued to those who impede traffic by crossing roadways outside of marked crosswalks or crossing against a crosswalk signal.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The issuance of citations is in keeping with a schedule we set earlier this fall,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chief Jeff McCracken. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Campus construction, earlier nightfall and the number of larger-scale special events scheduled during after-dark hours underscores the need for vigilance by both motorists and pedestrians.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe campaign reprises a 2006 initiative, when the officers issued hundreds of verbal and written warnings and cited 19 pedestrians.<br \/>\nThose wishing to report concerns for motorists or pedestrians on campus are encouraged to call the pedestrian hotline at 843-PEDS (7337).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus cops are now writing tickets for jaywalking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13907,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}