{"id":40,"date":"2008-03-16T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-01-14T01:36:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T01:36:49","slug":"people-are-looking-at-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"People are looking at safety!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 6, we had some high-profile visitors: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.  They came to look at the dangerous conditions on Barnett Avenue, particularly between 46th Street and Woodside Avenue.  This was covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/news\/2008\/0312\/features\/012.html\">the Gazette<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/index.cfm?newsid=19388882&amp;BRD=2731&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=574995&amp;rfi=8\" target=\"_blank\">the Chronicle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesledger.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=19388726&amp;BRD=2676&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=551069&amp;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\">the Times Ledger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very glad they came.  I&#8217;ve personally avoided that stretch of Barnett ever since I saw that it was so pedestrian-unfriendly.  Having it available to walk on again would be a big improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Before reading these articles, I didn&#8217;t even know there were that many people interested in safety on Barnett Avenue.  Skillman, Barnett, 43rd Avenue, 39th Avenue &#8230; there are lots of people who want improvements all over the neighborhood.  It&#8217;s silly for us to all be working separately.  I hope we can make contact and work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 6, we had some high-profile visitors: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. They came to look at the dangerous conditions on Barnett Avenue, particularly between 46th Street and Woodside Avenue. This was covered by the Gazette, the Chronicle and the Times Ledger. I&#8217;m very glad they came. I&#8217;ve personally avoided &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}