{"id":127213505,"date":"2009-01-12T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=127213505"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T09:05:05","slug":"economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=127213505","title":{"rendered":"Economic Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My organization, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.railstotrails.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=Economic_Recovery_to_BP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition<\/a> encouraging the incoming administration and Congress to explicitly fund bike\/ped. We also collected ready-to-go bike\/pedestrian projects from communities nationally to demonstrate to Congress that there&#8217;s demand for these projects (more than &#36;3 billion that we collected in a very short time frame). More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/whatwedo\/trailadvocacy\/Advocacy_corner_Jan_09_stimulus_update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I encourage everyone to sign the petition; this also serves to keep you in the loop about upcoming actions on this in the next few weeks. It&#8217;s possible that the authority of how to spend stimulus funds may fall solely on states, which forces the advocacy world into a difficult place by decentralizing our efforts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showpost.php?p=8166134&amp;postcount=9\">https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showpost.php?p=8166134&amp;postcount=9<\/a>oldId.20090112090505914<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My organization, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, ran a petition encouraging the incoming administration and Congress to explicitly fund bike\/ped. We also collected ready-to-go bike\/pedestrian projects from communities nationally to demonstrate to Congress that there&#8217;s demand for these projects (more than &#36;3 billion that we collected in a very short time frame). More here. I encourage everyone to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=127213505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Economic Recovery&#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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127213505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127213505","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=127213505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127213505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127213505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127213505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127213505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}