{"id":207,"date":"2007-08-28T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2007\/08\/self-monitoring-traffic\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:23:12","slug":"self-monitoring-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/08\/28\/self-monitoring-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-monitoring traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastown\">Gastown<\/a> while staying in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed something very interesting. Once you get past the entrance, there are no lights and few signs (other than one-way street signs) to limit traffic flow. There are very view crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite what would potentially be chaotic and dangerous seemed to have a poetic flow to it. The cars and pedestrians shared the street. There was no honking, and everyone seemed courteous.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what that would like like on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjrEQaG5jPM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, I visited Gastown while staying in Vancouver. I noticed something very interesting. Once you get past the entrance, there are no lights and few signs (other than one-way street signs) to limit traffic flow. There are very view crosswalks. Yet despite what would potentially be chaotic and dangerous seemed to have a poetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-3l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":864,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2010\/09\/03\/lethbridge-still-isnt-ready-for-cyclists\/","url_meta":{"origin":207,"position":0},"title":"Lethbridge still isn\u2019t ready for cyclists","author":"Kim Siever","date":"3 September 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one thing I hate about cycling in Lethbridge, it\u2019s the drivers. 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The fingernail a wrist impales while\u00a0signs inhale and oaths exhale, \u201cOr shall it be morality,\u201d he asks as he tears at the veil. 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