{"id":121956251,"date":"2008-11-12T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121956251"},"modified":"2008-11-12T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T12:44:11","slug":"bike-lanes-paths-or-trails-where-should-the-state-be-putting-its-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121956251","title":{"rendered":"Bike lanes, paths or trails, where should the State be putting its efforts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Survey of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Attitudes and Behavior:<br \/>\nThe change most desired in the community among all cycling frequencies was to increase bicycling facilities such as more bicycle lanes (38%), more bicycle paths (30%), and more bicycle trails (14%).<br \/>\nYet Maryland seems to emphasize trails and paths sometime to the expense of bike lanes or bikeable shoulders. I will strongly assert that the main reason for this is that there is currently no set funding mechanism and procedures for bike lanes as there is for paths and trails.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.dot.gov\/staticfiles\/DOT\/NHTSA\/Traffic%20Injury%20Control\/Articles\/Associated%20Files\/810971.pdf\">https:\/\/www.nhtsa.dot.gov\/staticfiles\/DOT\/NHTSA\/Traffic%20Injury%20Control\/Articles\/Associated%20Files\/810971.pdf<\/a>oldId.20081112124411795<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Survey of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Attitudes and Behavior: The change most desired in the community among all cycling frequencies was to increase bicycling facilities such as more bicycle lanes (38%), more bicycle paths (30%), and more bicycle trails (14%). Yet Maryland seems to emphasize trails and paths sometime to the expense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121956251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bike lanes, paths or trails, where should the State be putting its efforts?&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121956251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121956251","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=121956251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121956251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121956251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121956251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121956251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}