{"id":113874769,"date":"2008-08-10T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113874769"},"modified":"2008-08-10T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T23:52:49","slug":"new-york-city-art-design-bike-racks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113874769","title":{"rendered":"New York City Art &amp; Design &#8211; Bike Racks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nIn recent years his [David Byrne] interest in bicycles has expanded from riding them to thinking seriously about the role they play in urban life, as he has started making connections with politicians and international design consultants keen to keep cars from taking over the city. So when the Department of Transportation asked him to help judge a design competition for the city\u2019s new bike racks, he eagerly agreed \u2014 so eagerly, in fact, that he sent in his own designs as well.<br \/>\nThey were simple shapes to define different neighborhoods around the city: a dollar sign for Wall Street; an electric guitar for Williamsburg, Brooklyn; a car \u2014 \u201cThe Jersey\u201d \u2014 for the area near the Lincoln Tunnel. \u201cI said, \u2018Well, this disqualifies me as a judge,\u2019 \u201d he recalled, \u201cbut I just doodled them out and sent them in.\u201d He figured maybe they\u2019d be used to decorate the contest Web site, nycityracks.wordpress.com.<br \/>\n&#8230;on Friday nine racks made from his own whimsical designs were installed around the city. \u201cThey immediately responded, saying, \u2018If you can get these made, we\u2019ll put them through,\u2019 \u201c he recalled. \u201cI was kind of shocked.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/09\/arts\/design\/09bike.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;oref=slogin\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/09\/arts\/design\/09bike.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;oref=slogin<\/a>oldId.20080810235249373<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; In recent years his [David Byrne] interest in bicycles has expanded from riding them to thinking seriously about the role they play in urban life, as he has started making connections with politicians and international design consultants keen to keep cars from taking over the city. So when the Department of Transportation asked him &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113874769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New York City Art &amp; Design &#8211; Bike Racks?&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113874769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113874769","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=113874769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113874769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113874769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113874769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113874769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}