{"id":155811024,"date":"2009-12-09T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155811024"},"modified":"2009-12-09T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:50:24","slug":"walking-biking-good-for-you-and-the-planet-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155811024","title":{"rendered":"Walking, Biking Good for You and the Planet: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrians and cyclists should be made king of the urban jungle, according to an international study showing the big benefits of &quot;mass active travel.&quot;<br \/>\n[(flickr photo by Smart Trips used under Creative Commons license)](flickr photo by Smart Trips used under Creative Commons license)<br \/>\nIt suggests money should be diverted way from roads to make walking and cycling &quot;the most direct, convenient, and pleasant options for most urban trips.&quot; Pedestrians and bikers should also get &quot;priority&quot; over cars and trucks at intersections.<br \/>\nThe study is one of six reports on the &quot;health dividend&quot; of combating climate change published in the medical journal Lancet Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe reports say that enormous changes are needed to slow global warming, but show that reducing carbon dioxide emissions will be good for people&#8217;s health. Millions of deaths could be averted by getting people out of cars, breathing cleaner air and eating healthier food.<br \/>\nPublic health researchers and leaders issued the reports in a bid to get the message across to world leaders and negotiators heading to next month&#8217;s climate talks in Copenhagen.<br \/>\n&quot;Sadly, policy-makers have been slow to recognize that the real bottom line of climate change is its risk to human health and quality of life,&quot; Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, says in a commentary with the studies.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2009\/11\/25-8\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2009\/11\/25-8<\/a>oldId.20091209085024224<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrians and cyclists should be made king of the urban jungle, according to an international study showing the big benefits of &quot;mass active travel.&quot; [(flickr photo by Smart Trips used under Creative Commons license)](flickr photo by Smart Trips used under Creative Commons license) It suggests money should be diverted way from roads to make walking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=155811024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walking, Biking Good for You and the Planet: Study&#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-155811024","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\/155811024","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=155811024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155811024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155811024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155811024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155811024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}