{"id":2263,"date":"2005-09-15T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2005-09-15T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T16:44:31","slug":"crossing-sonar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/crossing-sonar\/","title":{"rendered":"crossing sonar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve just installed a new crossing system at Kennedy &#038; Eglinton. The crossing buttons emit a loud ping every second or so. I think this is supposed to help partially-sighted people find the crossing buttons to activate the signal.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a good idea if the things weren&#8217;t so loud. I could hear the things a block south of the crossing, over the traffic noise of Kennedy, and the lunchtime playground at the school.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/\">Spacing<\/a> would say? Noise pollution makes a huge dent in the amenity of public space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve just installed a new crossing system at Kennedy &#038; Eglinton. The crossing buttons emit a loud ping every second or so. I think this is supposed to help partially-sighted people find the crossing buttons to activate the signal. This would be a good idea if the things weren&#8217;t so loud. I could hear the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[705,1331,650,424,150,541,1473,199,1345,480,1071,184],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-suck","category-o-canada","tag-art","tag-idea","tag-ink","tag-kennedy","tag-led","tag-lunch","tag-noise","tag-peo","tag-ren","tag-sign","tag-tim","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}