{"id":5751,"date":"2010-01-28T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:30:57","slug":"on_the_unintended_consequences_of_speed_bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/on_the_unintended_consequences_of_speed_bumps.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Unintended Consequences Of Speed Bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unpainted speed bumps in Astoria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2010\/01\/28\/2010-01-28_umarked_speed_bumps_are_bad_news_for_drivers__nabe.html\">are keeping up the neighbors<\/a>, and providing new thrills for drivers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My house is rumbling,&#8221; said John Warren, 45, a father of three who lives on 49th St. near the speed bumps.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Before the bumps were installed in 2005, the street used to be a &#8220;raceway&#8221; for speeding vehicles, residents said.<\/p>\n<p>But the speed bumps haven&#8217;t slowed everyone down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People [speed] purposefully because they want to see how airborne they can get,&#8221; Warren said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpainted speed bumps in Astoria are keeping up the neighbors, and providing new thrills for drivers: &#8220;My house is rumbling,&#8221; said John Warren, 45, a father of three who lives on 49th St. near the speed bumps. . . . Before the bumps were installed in 2005, the street used to be a &#8220;raceway&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life","category-queens","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}