{"id":4292,"date":"2016-10-31T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:41:18","slug":"department-of-transportation-and-sitka-reach-agreement-on-pedestrian-safety-crosswalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4292","title":{"rendered":"Department of Transportation and Sitka Reach Agreement On Pedestrian Safety Crosswalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Department of Transportation and Sitka Reach Agreement On Pedestrian Safety Crosswalk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Department of Transportation (DOT) and the City of Sitka have reached an agreement that will improve the crosswalk at the intersection of Halibut Point Road and Peterson Street by McDonald\u2019s restaurant. Sitka has a lot of citizens, young and old, who walk and bike in the community, and McDonald\u2019s draws a lot of foot and bike traffic. \u00a0This represents a significant improvement to highway safety at a busy intersection.\u00a0 I raised the issue of Sitka crosswalks and highway safety to the Commissioner of DOT several times since last year in meetings at my office in Juneau and urged DOT to meet with local officials and take their concerns seriously.\u00a0 My office will continue to monitor the progress\u00a0and budget process on this project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Crosswalk-Recomendation-for-Sitka-3-3-15-004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Link: City of Sitka Recommendations for Crosswalks in Sitka (March 3, 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Transportation and Sitka Reach Agreement On Pedestrian Safety Crosswalk The State Department of Transportation (DOT) and the City of Sitka have reached an agreement that will improve the crosswalk at the intersection of Halibut Point Road and Peterson Street by McDonald\u2019s restaurant. Sitka has a lot of citizens, young and old, who walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}