{"id":150162116,"date":"2009-10-04T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150162116"},"modified":"2009-10-04T23:41:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:41:56","slug":"which-cycling-politics-doom-or-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150162116","title":{"rendered":"Which Cycling Politics: Doom or Possibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walks into a marketing and public relations firm and sits down to talk with their lead strategist.<br \/>\n\u201cOur organization has a fun, safe and healthy activity we wish to promote, but we\u2019re struggling to figure out the right approach,\u201d she says.<br \/>\nThe strategist thinks for a moment, then responds, \u201cI recommend the approach bicycle advocates have been using for the past 20 years; reinforce the public\u2019s fears about your activity.\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman is taken aback, pauses for a moment, then says, \u201cOh!  You had me going there for a moment!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d asks the strategist.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, you were joking, right?\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nIf only.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Politics of Possibility<br \/>\nBecause cycling is not very risky.  The average bicyclist \u2013 and this includes all those ones who ride in a less-than-competent manner \u2013 will travel about 4 million hours before experiencing a fatal crash.  (That is equal to 456 years of non-stop cycling.)  Competent cyclists will travel at least five times farther before a fatal crash.  But we focus way too much on these rare crashes, instead of on the hundreds of millions of miles cyclists travel every year without incident.  (Motorists by comparison travel about 2 million hours before experiencing a fatal crash.  Yes, their risk is twice that of bicyclists.)<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mighkwilson.com\/2009\/10\/which-cycling-politics-doom-or-possibility\/\">https:\/\/mighkwilson.com\/2009\/10\/which-cycling-politics-doom-or-possibility\/<\/a>oldId.20091004234156634<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walks into a marketing and public relations firm and sits down to talk with their lead strategist. \u201cOur organization has a fun, safe and healthy activity we wish to promote, but we\u2019re struggling to figure out the right approach,\u201d she says. The strategist thinks for a moment, then responds, \u201cI recommend the approach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150162116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which Cycling Politics: Doom or Possibility?&#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-150162116","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\/150162116","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=150162116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150162116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150162116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150162116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150162116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}