{"id":7614,"date":"2020-02-04T01:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2020-02-04T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:34:38","slug":"cyclists-beware-of-tram-tracks-dangerous-spot-on-elisabethenstrasse-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/cyclists-beware-of-tram-tracks-dangerous-spot-on-elisabethenstrasse-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists, beware of tram tracks. Dangerous spot on Elisabethenstrasse in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I witnessed a motorbike crash this morning while cycling to work.<\/p>\n<p>I was cycling up Elisabethenstrasse when I heard a loud crash.<\/p>\n<p>A motorbiker had crashed on the other side of the street. At a place where the tram tracks and street don\u2019t leave much space for cyclists and motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>At exactly the same spot which I&#8217;ve previously identified as being dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, the pavement at the tram stop was increased in height so that now the tram doors open at pavement level.<\/p>\n<p>This means the curb is much higher and steeper.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the space between curb and tram track is narrower than before and after the tram stop.<\/p>\n<p>Which means on rainy days, you can easily slip on the wet and slippery tram tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>I usually move to the middle of the tracks, away from the curb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think I will cycle a different route. Especially on rainy days.<\/p>\n<p>Life is precious. Cycle safely.<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell i am shocked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I witnessed a motorbike crash this morning while cycling to work. I was cycling up Elisabethenstrasse when I heard a loud crash. A motorbiker had crashed on the other side of the street. At a place where the tram tracks and street don\u2019t leave much space for cyclists and motorbikes. At exactly the same spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,44,1],"tags":[831,835,832,834,830,833],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basel","category-biking","category-general","tag-curb","tag-dangerous","tag-pavement","tag-rainy","tag-tram-tracks","tag-wet-and-slippery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-1YO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}