{"id":119547818,"date":"2008-10-15T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119547818"},"modified":"2008-10-15T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:43:38","slug":"facts-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119547818","title":{"rendered":"Facts &amp; Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of the stats we&#8217;ve recently posted on our [Bikes Belong] website:<br \/>\n    * Participation: Less than 1% of all U.S. trips are made by bicycle, yet nearly 40% of all trips are two miles or less.<br \/>\n    * Economic: The average annual operating cost of a bicycle is around $200, 1\/70th that of an average car.<br \/>\n    * Health: Men who cycle to work are significantly less likely to be overweight and obese (39.8%) than those who drive to work (60.8%).<br \/>\n    * Facilities: From 1992-2005 Portland, Oregon, increased its bikeway network by 215%, and during that period bicycle commuting doubled.<br \/>\n    * Environmental: Bicycling instead of driving 5 miles a day reduces individual CO2 emissions by 1,287 pounds annually, about 6% of the average American&#8217;s total emissions.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikesbelong.org\/statistics\">https:\/\/www.bikesbelong.org\/statistics<\/a>oldId.20081015154338976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of the stats we&#8217;ve recently posted on our [Bikes Belong] website: * Participation: Less than 1% of all U.S. trips are made by bicycle, yet nearly 40% of all trips are two miles or less. * Economic: The average annual operating cost of a bicycle is around $200, 1\/70th that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119547818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facts &amp; Stats&#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-119547818","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\/119547818","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=119547818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119547818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119547818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119547818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119547818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}