
{"id":2833,"date":"2008-06-19T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:49:59","slug":"for-the-record-sanity-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/19\/for-the-record-sanity-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Record: Sanity calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few simple and relatively inexpensive items to add to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public works budget: Large signs downtown encouraging those piloting automobiles not to talk on the phone while driving.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is because so many Citizen staffers get around on foot or by bike that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a number of first-hand reports of motorists whooshing by crosswalks or sweeping around corners with one hand on the wheel, the other cradling a phone and their minds about as far from what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing as the cell towers south of town. In one such incident, a young, talkative person in a large utility vehicle narrowly missed one of our staffers and the Carrboro chief of police (in full uniform) in the middle of the crosswalk at the Century Center.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even seen drivers express exasperation that our appearance in a crosswalk interrupted their conversation. You know, that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hey I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on the phone, here!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d look.<\/p>\n<p>With downtown getting more crowded and society, it seems, getting even more chatty, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real necessity to curb such behavior.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see a creative approach to letting motorists know that it is not OK to behave that way with a ton of hurtling metal. How about placards prominently displayed along the roadways leading downtown that say something like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Talk and Drive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Extinguish Cell Phones While Driving.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re even happy to chip in some free ads for the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few simple and relatively inexpensive items to add to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public works budget: Large signs downtown encouraging those piloting automobiles not to talk on the phone while driving. Perhaps it is because so many Citizen staffers get around on foot or by bike that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a number of first-hand reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}