{"id":125831521,"date":"2008-12-27T09:12:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T09:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=125831521"},"modified":"2008-12-27T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T09:12:01","slug":"holier-than-you-on-the-bogus-bicycle-commuter-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=125831521","title":{"rendered":"Holier than You on the Bogus Bicycle Commuter Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[In a word, where you can get a $220 parking allowance for your car, a $115 mass transit allowance or a $20 biking allowance but you can only pick one, which one would you choose?]<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOne plus for LaHood &#8211; he co-sponsored the Bicycle Commuter Act. Of course, so did 64 other representatives, so it&#8217;s not like he really stuck his neck out on that one. It did get snuck into the bailout bill, but I find it very humdrum. $20\/month subsidy for people who bike to work. Great! Except that if you already participate in a pre-tax transit benefit, you can&#8217;t take advantage. People who bike often are people who take transit, even if they aren&#8217;t multi-modal commuters like the Caltrain bike cohort. For example, I know people in SF who bike to work, don&#8217;t own a car, and also have a MUNI pass. A MUNI pass is $45. In order to get the bike benefit, they&#8217;d have to forfeit their much larger transit benefit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/holierthanyou.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/bogus-bicycle-commuter-act.html\">https:\/\/holierthanyou.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/bogus-bicycle-commuter-act.html<\/a>oldId.20081227091201194<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[In a word, where you can get a $220 parking allowance for your car, a $115 mass transit allowance or a $20 biking allowance but you can only pick one, which one would you choose?] &#8230; One plus for LaHood &#8211; he co-sponsored the Bicycle Commuter Act. Of course, so did 64 other representatives, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=125831521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holier than You on the Bogus Bicycle Commuter Act&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125831521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125831521","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=125831521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125831521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125831521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125831521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125831521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}