{"id":5565,"date":"2015-04-21T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:01:58","slug":"report-daytona-race-track-only-two-feet-wider-than-stapleton-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5565","title":{"rendered":"Report:  Daytona Race Track only Two Feet Wider than Stapleton Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/daytona-track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/daytona-track-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"daytona-track\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5567\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/cityfixer\/2015\/04\/a-case-study-in-flawed-street-design\/389291\/?utm_source=SFFB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent article<\/a> discusses some of the flaws to Stapleton\u2019s new urbanism effort, which mostly focuses on street design.  What was intended to be a walking community has essentially been overrun with speeding cars.  \u201cThe design has done nothing to encourage biking or walking,\u201d says new urbanism planner Doug Cox.  \u201cWhen you make wide roads with two and three car garages in the back, you completely eliminate street parking, therefore creating wide lanes which encourage speedy traffic.\u201d\n<!--more-->\nIn fact, Cox says if Stapleton ever feels like a raceway, it\u2019s probably because it\u2019s not too far off.  \u201cThe measured distance from end to end of the Daytona race track is 40 feet,\u201d says Cox.  \u201cMost Stapleton streets are 38 feet, meaning there is really not much of a difference in driving on the Daytona race track or driving the suburban Stapleton streets.\u201d  Cox says that Stapleton has significantly higher than expected traffic speeds.  \u201cOur studies have indicated that for a lot of the Stapleton roads, roughly half of the drivers are exceeding the speed limit.  This can be dangerous when we have so many kids, dogs, bikers, and runners.\u201d\nResidents have tried different things to slow the traffic with little success.  Some residents place the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/stapleton-census-by-2014-turtle-signs-to-outnumber-caucasian-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slow children at play<\/a>\u201d signs in the street, others use the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/driver-busy-reading-drive-like-your-kids-live-here-sign-almost-strikes-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drive like your kids live here<\/a>\u201d signs, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/new-signs-prove-effective-at-slowing-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most effective sign<\/a> has proven to not be effective enough.  Police have done their part by having patrol cars, motorcycles, photo traps, and speed limit signs.  Nothing has worked in slowing the Stapleton speedway.\nUltimately, Cox feels that like everything else, time will heal Stapleton\u2019s speed problems.  \u201cAs Stapleton begins to get teenagers, there will be extra cars at homes,\u201d says Cox.  \u201cExtra cars mean more street parking, more street parking will shrink the size of the roads, which will ultimately slow traffic.\u201d  So, pick your poison, Stapleton residents.  Speedy traffic or teenage drivers? ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-102","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}