{"id":104621760,"date":"2008-04-25T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=104621760"},"modified":"2008-04-25T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:36:00","slug":"another-barrier-to-cycling-hits-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=104621760","title":{"rendered":"Another barrier to cycling hits the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the efforts of One Less Car, Baltimore Bicycling Club, Baltimore Spokes and people like you who got involved, Maryland&#8217;s law that prohibited cyclists on all toll bridges and ramps has been changed to allow the Chairman of MdTA to authorize toll bridges for bike\/ped use. Governor Martian O&#8217;Malley signed this into law on 4\/24 and will take effect in October of this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>PLEASE do not head across the Bay Bridge or through the Harbor Tunnel on your<br \/>\nSchwinn claiming this new law as justification.  It is still prohibited.<br \/>\nInstead, participate fully in the public input to future construction and rehab<br \/>\nprojects to make them bike\/ped accessible.<\/em>[Read comment for more details.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYou can download the pic from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govpics.maryland.gov\/dsp_slideshow.cfm?CurrentPage=8&amp;year=2008&amp;month=04&amp;day=24&amp;date=20080424&amp;event=&#92;20080424-Bill%20Signing%20Ceremony-jb&#92;edited&#92;&amp;search=date\">here (DSC_5143.JPG)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FWIW I had a nice 75 mile bike ride that day and averaged 16.7 mph getting to Annapolis (14.? overall for the day.)oldId.20080425213653289<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the efforts of One Less Car, Baltimore Bicycling Club, Baltimore Spokes and people like you who got involved, Maryland&#8217;s law that prohibited cyclists on all toll bridges and ramps has been changed to allow the Chairman of MdTA to authorize toll bridges for bike\/ped use. Governor Martian O&#8217;Malley signed this into law on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=104621760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another barrier to cycling hits the dust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104621760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104621760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104621760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104621760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104621760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104621760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104621760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}