{"id":1879,"date":"2016-07-15T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rivalsolutions.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:56:01","slug":"safer-roads-or-better-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Safer roads or better roads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine this is a challenge many agencies will fac<a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/testweb.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1880\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1884\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/?attachment_id=1884\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?fit=1280%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pedestrians_Crossing,_Bloor_and_Yonge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?fit=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?fit=605%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1884 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/testweb.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=100%2C80&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=200%2C160&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=450%2C360&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=600%2C480&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=900%2C720&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?resize=400%2C320&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pedestrians_Crossing_Bloor_and_Yonge.jpg?w=1210 1210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>e. Capacity? \u00a0Safety? \u00a0Level of service? How do you prioritize these potentially competing priorities?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2016\/07\/14\/toronto-city-council-finds-cash-for-more-road-safety-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2016\/07\/14\/toronto-city-council-finds-cash-for-more-road-safety-plans.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine this is a challenge many agencies will face. Capacity? \u00a0Safety? \u00a0Level of service? How do you prioritize these potentially competing priorities? https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2016\/07\/14\/toronto-city-council-finds-cash-for-more-road-safety-plans.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,139,144],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yAVl-uj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1973,"url":"https:\/\/www0.rivalsolutions.com\/?p=1973","url_meta":{"origin":1879,"position":0},"title":"Rival&#8217;s flagship app, rRuf, is going down under!","date":"2016\/08\/29","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking for an affordable, easy to deploy, and user-friendly solution to provide quantitative data and analysis for the management of their gravel roads, the Shire\u00a0of Augusta Margaret River contacted Rival Solutions. 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