{"id":39609,"date":"2023-11-30T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=39609"},"modified":"2023-11-30T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:26:42","slug":"fhp-will-be-ticketing-drivers-who-blow-through-memorial-boulevard-crosswalks-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/30\/fhp-will-be-ticketing-drivers-who-blow-through-memorial-boulevard-crosswalks-today\/","title":{"rendered":"FHP will be ticketing drivers who blow through Memorial Boulevard crosswalks today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drivers who blow through the special, lit-up pedestrian crosswalks on Memorial Boulevard in Lakeland will be ticketed around lunchtime today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Florida Highway Patrol and members of the Florida Department of Transportation Community Traffic Safety Team will be at the crosswalks citing motorists who violate the signals and educating drivers and pedestrians on best safety practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe recent data collected by FDOT shows that some pedestrians are not using the equipment (PHBs) in this area and drivers are not stopping when they should,\u201d said Keith Robbins, FDOT district safety administrator. \u201cThis is truly alarming, especially since this stretch of the boulevard is utilized by approximately 300 pedestrians daily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pedestrian hybrid beacons were installed in 2020. There are at least five of them between Kettles Avenue in the west and Ingraham Avenue in the east. The beacons allow pedestrians to push a button, and lights flash to stop traffic and give the pedestrian the right of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics show that many traffic related deaths involve people walking at night and at non-intersection locations, the FDOT said. The beacons are proven to reduce accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists, but their success is dependent on drivers and pedestrians being aware of their surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drivers who blow through the special, lit-up pedestrian crosswalks on Memorial Boulevard in Lakeland will be ticketed around lunchtime today. The Florida Highway Patrol and members of the Florida Department of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6900],"class_list":["post-39609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-fhp-will-be-ticketing-drivers-who-blow-through-memorial-boulevard-crosswalks-today"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39611,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609\/revisions\/39611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}