{"id":51042,"date":"2018-05-16T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51042"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:06:38","slug":"parking-lot-driving-lanes-to-be-reduced-for-pedestrian-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/parking-lot-driving-lanes-to-be-reduced-for-pedestrian-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking lot driving lanes to be reduced for pedestrian safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several driving lanes through Brock parking lots will close this week to improve pedestrians\u2019 safe use of crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Friday, May 18, three north-to-south driving lanes affecting Zone 1, Lot A Reserved and Lot E2 parking lots will be permanently blocked. (See diagram below.)<\/p>\n<p>The improvement will reduce the amount of pedestrian crossings drivers have to navigate at the busy crosswalk that leads from main campus to East Academic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess driving lanes near the crosswalk means less opportunity for cars to interact with pedestrians,\u201d said John Dick, Grounds Manager for Facilities Management.<\/p>\n<p>The driving lane leading from the north entrance of Zone 1 off of University Road East (near the Suzanne Rochon-Burnett Circle) will still be available, as well as the lane furthest to the east, parallel to Glenridge Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51044 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Zone-1-walkway-safety-improvements21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2346\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several driving lanes through Brock parking lots will close this week to improve pedestrians\u2019 safe use of crosswalks. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51045,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions\/51045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}