{"id":160073390,"date":"2010-01-27T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160073390"},"modified":"2010-01-27T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:49:50","slug":"you-cant-fight-the-state-dot-or-can-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160073390","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Fight the State DOT \u2013 Or Can You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be remarkably difficult for citizens to influence the decisions of major transportation agencies. I use the example of a state DOT here, but it could be a transit agency. How might one go about doing this effectively? There are two major parts: political and technical.<br \/>\n[No doubt we need good bicycling advocacy in the state so those of you who want to try your hand at this here is a good primer on what &amp; how basics.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanophile.com\/2010\/01\/21\/you-cant-fight-the-state-dot-or-can-you\/\">https:\/\/www.urbanophile.com\/2010\/01\/21\/you-cant-fight-the-state-dot-or-can-you\/<\/a>oldId.20100127164950779<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be remarkably difficult for citizens to influence the decisions of major transportation agencies. I use the example of a state DOT here, but it could be a transit agency. How might one go about doing this effectively? There are two major parts: political and technical. [No doubt we need good bicycling advocacy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=160073390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Can\u2019t Fight the State DOT \u2013 Or Can You?&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160073390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160073390","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=160073390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160073390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160073390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160073390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160073390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}