{"id":137685085,"date":"2009-05-13T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=137685085"},"modified":"2009-05-13T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:51:25","slug":"montreal-inaugurates-continents-most-ambitious-bike-sharing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=137685085","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Inaugurates Continent\u2019s Most Ambitious Bike-Sharing Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bikelooker.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n Montreal spent 15 million Canadian dollars (about &#36;13 million) to develop and start the system, although it is budgeted to ultimately become financially self-sufficient. But Montreal has received seven patents for Bixi and Mr. Lavall\u00e9e hopes to sell it to other North American cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe developed this product for Montreal,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we were very convinced that it\u2019s good for any city.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/montreal-inaugurates-continents-most-ambitious-bike-sharing-program\/?emc=eta1\">https:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/montreal-inaugurates-continents-most-ambitious-bike-sharing-program\/?emc=eta1<\/a>oldId.2009051313512560<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Montreal spent 15 million Canadian dollars (about &#36;13 million) to develop and start the system, although it is budgeted to ultimately become financially self-sufficient. But Montreal has received seven patents for Bixi and Mr. Lavall\u00e9e hopes to sell it to other North American cities. \u201cWe developed this product for Montreal,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=137685085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Montreal Inaugurates Continent\u2019s Most Ambitious Bike-Sharing Program&#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-137685085","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\/137685085","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=137685085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137685085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137685085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137685085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137685085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}