{"id":114013364,"date":"2008-08-12T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114013364"},"modified":"2008-08-12T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:22:44","slug":"you-can-ride-one-of-mayor-fentys-bicycles-but-not-the-really-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114013364","title":{"rendered":"You Can Ride One of Mayor Fenty&#8217;s Bicycles (But not the really good one)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow, D.C. transportation lords will unveil their long-awaited Smart Bike program (like the one Paris uses, and Barcelona and Oslo), making Washington the first major American city to provide this kind of grab-and-go bicycle for public use on short urban hops. (It&#8217;s amazing that we beat Seattle or Portland to this particular Edge City punch.) The first 100 bikes at 10 automated racks around the city won&#8217;t be officially available until Mayor Fenty snips the ribbon Wednesday, but I begged my way onto a list of beta testers who got access in advance. Last Thursday, I spent a few hours taking a city bike ride on a city bike. &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/rawfisher\/2008\/08\/you_can_ride_one_mayor_fentys.html?hpid=news-col-blogs\">https:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/rawfisher\/2008\/08\/you_can_ride_one_mayor_fentys.html?hpid=news-col-blogs<\/a>oldId.20080812142244382<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Tomorrow, D.C. transportation lords will unveil their long-awaited Smart Bike program (like the one Paris uses, and Barcelona and Oslo), making Washington the first major American city to provide this kind of grab-and-go bicycle for public use on short urban hops. (It&#8217;s amazing that we beat Seattle or Portland to this particular Edge City &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=114013364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Can Ride One of Mayor Fenty&#8217;s Bicycles (But not the really good one)&#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-114013364","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\/114013364","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=114013364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114013364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114013364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114013364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114013364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}