{"id":144240275,"date":"2009-07-28T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144240275"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:44:35","slug":"cycling-for-a-few-or-for-everyone-the-importance-of-social-justice-in-cycling-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144240275","title":{"rendered":"Cycling for a Few or for Everyone: The Importance of Social Justice in Cycling Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you following the debate between Vehicular Cyclists (VC) and bikeway advocates there is a good point and counter point articles in the World Transport Policy &amp; Practice newsletter. For me much of this debate is like the bike helmet debate, so while sure I recommend wearing a helmet it should not in anyway supersede information in regards to riding safely. The amount of bike crashes reported that are riding against traffic is appalling, better to ride where drivers are looking and prevent an accident then rely on a helmet for &quot;safe crashing.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe Importance of Bicyclist Education pg 47 by Bjorn Haake<br \/>\nCycling for a Few or for Everyone: The Importance of Social Justice in Cycling Policy pg 57 by John Pucher, Ralph Buehler<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco-logica.co.uk\/pdf\/wtpp15.1.pdf\">https:\/\/www.eco-logica.co.uk\/pdf\/wtpp15.1.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nFor more on riding safely: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/links\/index.php?category=Must+read+for+bike+safety\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/links\/index.php?category=Must+read+for+bike+safety<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20090728104435791<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you following the debate between Vehicular Cyclists (VC) and bikeway advocates there is a good point and counter point articles in the World Transport Policy &amp; Practice newsletter. For me much of this debate is like the bike helmet debate, so while sure I recommend wearing a helmet it should not in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=144240275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycling for a Few or for Everyone: The Importance of Social Justice in Cycling Policy&#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-144240275","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\/144240275","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=144240275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144240275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144240275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144240275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144240275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}