{"id":108,"date":"2026-11-03T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:31:50","slug":"the-road-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/11\/03\/the-road-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road To Hell&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-109\" src=\"http:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeParker-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeParker-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeParker-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeParker.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>I took a stroll to see how the council&#8217;s much heralded safety project at the skewed intersection Bridge St and Drs James Parker Blvd is progressing &#8211; <em>more on this another day&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, given the town&#8217;s long list of cycling and pedestrian safety awards, it wasn&#8217;t a great surprise to see how the only bike lanes in Red Bank are fairing&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane.jpg\" alt=\"Heading south on Bridge St, the town's only designated bike lane has faded to a badly worn sharrow. Meanwhile at the top of the street cyclists will be banned from making a left turn towards the lane's natural destination, the Count Basie Fields\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/BridgeBikelane-864x1536.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Heading south on Bridge St, the town&#8217;s only designated bike lane has faded to a badly worn sharrow. Meanwhile at the top of the street cyclists will be banned from making a left turn towards the bike lane&#8217;s natural destination, the Count Basie Fields<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a stroll to see how the council&#8217;s much heralded safety project at the skewed intersection Bridge St and Drs James Parker Blvd is progressing &#8211; more on this another day&#8230; However, given the town&#8217;s long list of cycling and pedestrian safety awards, it wasn&#8217;t a great surprise to see how the only bike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/11\/03\/the-road-to-hell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Road To Hell&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,82],"tags":[79,18,47,80,11,29],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","category-on-two-wheels","tag-bike-lanes","tag-bikeped","tag-complete-streets","tag-on-yer-bike","tag-road-safety","tag-roads-were-not-built-for-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}