{"id":126140011,"date":"2008-12-30T22:53:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=126140011"},"modified":"2008-12-30T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T22:53:31","slug":"solution-not-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=126140011","title":{"rendered":"Solution not a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;Accommodating cyclists in your community is a solution not a problem,&quot; Peel told the group, which included Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson, Alderman Gary Higdon, Hernando&#8217;s bicycle police officers, several civil engineers and a handful of biking enthusiasts.<br \/>\nPeel presented several statistics to support his case including that 40 percent of trips made are 2 miles or less and 89 percent of those trips are made by car.<br \/>\n&quot;Motorists think bicyclists are in the way, but really it&#8217;s one less motorist in a car in front of you at the stoplight,&quot; Peel said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/18\/bike-advocates-roll-to-success\/\">https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/18\/bike-advocates-roll-to-success\/<\/a>oldId.20081230225331178<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; &quot;Accommodating cyclists in your community is a solution not a problem,&quot; Peel told the group, which included Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson, Alderman Gary Higdon, Hernando&#8217;s bicycle police officers, several civil engineers and a handful of biking enthusiasts. Peel presented several statistics to support his case including that 40 percent of trips made are 2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=126140011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solution not a problem&#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-126140011","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\/126140011","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=126140011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126140011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126140011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126140011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126140011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}