{"id":514,"date":"2014-02-24T13:41:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2021-05-22T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:51:00","slug":"a-good-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/a-good-sign.html","title":{"rendered":"A Good Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my ride in today I noticed that SDOT fixed the bicycle and pedestrian crossing sign I reported down last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you SDOT!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-521 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1-225x300.jpg?resize=330%2C440\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-1.jpg?w=1224&amp;ssl=1 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wabikelaw\/posts\/831454973537849?stream_ref=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haphazard shoving it the ground<\/a> that spurred SDOT into action. It&#8217;s safely in the ground now (not unlike it was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobAnderton\/status\/413713025929986048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when I first praised it<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-2.jpg?w=1224&amp;ssl=1 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that SDOT has numerous responsibilities and that many good people work there.\u00a0 I suspect that, like me, SDOT and its employees want our roads to be safe for all users.\u00a0 Still, it can be frustration to see the lack of action and even more so to see the wrong actions (and the wrong signs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"IMG_2897\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897.jpg?resize=375%2C500&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_2897.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobAnderton\/status\/415293423692677121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> is the context for the good sign\/bad sign.\u00a0 The earlier blog entry is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/a-bad-sign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my ride in today I noticed that SDOT fixed the bicycle and pedestrian crossing sign I reported down last year. Thank you SDOT! Maybe it was my haphazard shoving it the ground that spurred SDOT into action. It&#8217;s safely in the ground now (not unlike it was when I first praised it) I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/W11-15-500x500.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}