{"id":143640934,"date":"2009-07-21T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143640934"},"modified":"2009-07-21T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:15:34","slug":"students-bike-ride-earns-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143640934","title":{"rendered":"Student\u2019s bike ride earns punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: Many (most) Maryland schools have similar policies.]<br \/>\nSARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 While hundreds of area workers pedaled their way to work last Friday as participants in the national Bike to Work Day, one woman and her son were scolded for breaking the rules.<br \/>\nJanette Kaddo Marino and her son, Adam, 12, wanted to participate in the commuting event, so the two set off to Maple Avenue Middle School on bicycles May 15. The two pedaled the 7 miles from their east side home, riding along a path that extends north from North Broadway straight onto school property.<br \/>\nAfter they arrived, mother and son were approached first by school security and then school administrators, who informed Marino that students are not permitted to ride their bikes to school.<br \/>\n\u201cUnbeknownst to us there is a policy,\u201d she said, \u201cbut it wasn\u2019t in any of the brochures given to us.\u201d<br \/>\nSchool officials took her son\u2019s bike and stored it in the boiler room. They told her she would have to return with a car to retrieve the bike later in the day.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/23\/news\/doc4a176696ca884152592474.txt\">https:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/23\/news\/doc4a176696ca884152592474.txt<\/a><br \/>\nAmazingly, Saratoga Springs was cited only a week ago in Business Week, in an article titled &quot;Livable Saratoga,&quot; to illustrate places &quot;with a small-town feel where you can walk to work and shopping.&quot;  But not, apparently, to school.<br \/>\nUPDATE via Sustainable Cities Collective:<br \/>\nThe ironies to this story are many. To begin with, there is clearly a crosswalk in front of the school that appears to connect to a well used path. Whether a cross-walk on a two lane country road without a traffic light or a stop sign is an invitation to frogger is an open question. Secondly, Kaid Benfield of the Natural Resources Defense Council notes that Saratoga Springs was commended only a week ago by Business Week for being an &quot;anti-suburbia&quot; where &quot;you can walk to work and shopping&quot;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fullyarticulated.typepad.com\/sprawledout\/2009\/07\/switchboard-from-nrdc-kaid-benfields-blog-biking-walking-to-school-illegal-in-saratoga-springs.html\">https:\/\/fullyarticulated.typepad.com\/sprawledout\/2009\/07\/switchboard-from-nrdc-kaid-benfields-blog-biking-walking-to-school-illegal-in-saratoga-springs.html<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20090721121534645<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: Many (most) Maryland schools have similar policies.] SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 While hundreds of area workers pedaled their way to work last Friday as participants in the national Bike to Work Day, one woman and her son were scolded for breaking the rules. Janette Kaddo Marino and her son, Adam, 12, wanted to participate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=143640934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Student\u2019s bike ride earns punishment&#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-143640934","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\/143640934","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=143640934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143640934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143640934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143640934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143640934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}