{"id":5828,"date":"2010-02-11T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:43:47","slug":"studies_prove_it_once_and_for_all_lawn_furniture_saves_lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/studies_prove_it_once_and_for_all_lawn_furniture_saves_lives.html","title":{"rendered":"Studies Prove It Once And For All: Lawn Furniture Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/02\/11\/2010-02-11_somethin_fishy_going_on_in_times_square_.html\">And once you go to the trouble to install all that raised sidewalk, it&#8217;s annoying to have to get rid of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Broadway will remain permanently closed through Times Square after an eight-month tryout that infuriated cabbies but delighted tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bloomberg is set to announce the decision Thursday morning after weighing the complaints of area businesses against City Hall&#8217;s statistics.<\/p>\n<p>One person familiar with the conclusions said traffic speeds increased slightly on Seventh Ave., but less than the 17% improvement DOT engineers predicted.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If lives are being saved, it&#8217;s really hard to argue with,&#8221; said Transportation Alternatives spokesman Wiley Norvell.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/timessquarepedestrianmall\/index.htm\">Times Square Pedestrian Mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And once you go to the trouble to install all that raised sidewalk, it&#8217;s annoying to have to get rid of it: Broadway will remain permanently closed through Times Square after an eight-month tryout that infuriated cabbies but delighted tourists. Mayor Bloomberg is set to announce the decision Thursday morning after weighing the complaints of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-manhattan","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}