{"id":450930,"date":"2021-11-22T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450930"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:34:41","slug":"road-safety-experts-begin-trials-for-safe-school-zones-in-5-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-safety-experts-begin-trials-for-safe-school-zones-in-5-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Road safety: Experts begin trials for &#8216;Safe School Zones&#8217; in 5 cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Slow down-School ahead&#8221;, reads a sign outside a top private school in Bengaluru, which has converted the area outside its premises into a &#8216;Safe School Zone&#8217; to ensure road safety for children and improve pedestrian access.<\/p>\n<p>St Joseph&#8217;s High School in Bengaluru is among a few schools in five cities of the country where such zones have been set up on trial basis. <\/p>\n<p>A Safe School Zone includes designated roadways located near a school where additional care is needed due to an increase in school-related pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The zone extends up to 300 feet from the border of the school property or at least 300 feet from a school crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Slow down-School ahead&#8221;, reads a sign outside a top private school in Bengaluru, which has converted the area outside its premises into a &#8216;Safe School Zone&#8217; to ensure road safety for children and improve pedestrian access. St Joseph&#8217;s High School in Bengaluru is among a few schools in five cities of the country where such zones have been set up on trial basis. A Safe School Zone includes designated roadways located near a school where additional care is needed due to an increase in school-related pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The zone extends up to 300 feet from the border of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}