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MIAMI, Florida \u2013\u00a0 <\/strong>Only in Florida.<\/p>\n The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) announced today that it has plans to create a bumpered \u201ctexting lane\u201d along the Dolphin Expressway, according to Miami news site\u00a0The Plantain.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a necessary step we must take as a community to ensure public safety,\u201d said MDX spokeswoman Anne Hinga, noting that educational campaigns about the dangers of texting while driving have failed to curb the ubiquitous behavior.<\/p>\n \u201cOur roads are filled with millennials raised in front of a cellphone screen. We cannot realistically expect these young drivers not to text and drive,\u201d said Ms. Hinga. \u201cThe bumpered texting lane is our attempt to mitigate the dangers of texting while driving and is a plan that we believe will save thousands of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Source Empire News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MIAMI, Florida \u2013\u00a0 Only in Florida. The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) announced today that it has plans to create a bumpered \u201ctexting lane\u201d along the Dolphin Expressway, according to Miami news site\u00a0The Plantain.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a necessary step we must take as a community to ensure public safety,\u201d said MDX spokeswoman Anne Hinga, noting […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[161,160,203],"adace-sponsor":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/texting.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}