
{"id":5648,"date":"2009-04-30T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2009-04-30T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:58:51","slug":"not-a-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/04\/30\/not-a-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Not a fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April 23 For The Record regarding Smith Level Road says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fact that such a heavily traveled road and key artery into town is unsafe for bicyclists&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If it is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fact\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there ought to be collision statistics supporting that assertion, but there are not. Further, collisions don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prove a road is unsafe because the collisions could be due to foolish bicyclist behavior, an all-too-common problem.<\/p>\n<p>If a motorist assaults a bicyclist is the road dangerous? So the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fact\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is actually merely the oft-repeated false perception that a road is dangerous if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have bike lanes (or shoulders) and safe if it does. Can we get past the silliness that roads are dangerous when it comes to bicycling, and admit that any danger is really behaviorally based?<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Pein<br \/>\nChapel Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 23 For The Record regarding Smith Level Road says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fact that such a heavily traveled road and key artery into town is unsafe for bicyclists&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If it is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fact\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there ought to be collision statistics supporting that assertion, but there are not. Further, collisions don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prove a road is unsafe because&#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-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","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=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}