{"id":23222,"date":"2018-01-10T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/10\/france-cuts-speed-limit-on-roads-after-alarming-rise-in-deaths\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T02:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T01:29:22","slug":"france-cuts-speed-limit-on-roads-after-alarming-rise-in-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=23222","title":{"rendered":"France cuts speed limit on roads after alarming rise in deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reduction on two-lane highways from 90km\/h to 80km\/h follows 3,500 fatalities on roads in 2016The French government said on Tuesday it would lower the speed limit on two-lane highways to 80km\/h (50mph) from 90km\/h, hoping to reverse an alarming rise in road deaths.Several previous governments had toyed with the idea as a means of reducing highway deaths, which reached nearly 3,500 in 2016, but backed off in the face of widespread public opposition. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/10\/france-cuts-speed-limit-rise-deaths\" target=\"_blank\">France cuts speed limit on roads after alarming rise in deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduction on two-lane highways from 90km\/h to 80km\/h follows 3,500 fatalities on roads in 2016The French government said on Tuesday it would lower the speed limit on two-lane highways to 80km\/h (50mph) from 90km\/h, hoping to reverse an alarming rise in road deaths.Several previous governments had toyed with the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}