{"id":164460923,"date":"2010-03-19T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=164460923"},"modified":"2010-03-19T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:35:23","slug":"tell-congress-make-walking-and-biking-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=164460923","title":{"rendered":"Tell Congress: Make walking and biking safe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 76,000 Americans have been hit by cars while walking or biking in their communities in the last 15 years?<\/p>\n<p>Most of America&#8217;s roads are designed for cars &#8212; and for cars only. That doesn\u2019t make any sense in a country where one in three people doesn\u2019t have access to a car, and where half of all trips could be accomplished with a 20-minute bike ride.<\/p>\n<p>A new bill was just introduced in Congress would jumpstart the process of transforming our transportation infrastructure to make it friendlier to bikers and walkers &#8212; the Active Community Transportation Act (H.R. 4722). It would create a federal grant program to fund local projects aimed at improving conditions for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>Will you join me in asking our representatives in Congress to co-sponsor this bill? I just sent a letter to mine, and it just takes a second:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/action.smartgrowthamerica.org\/t\/3224\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2434\">https:\/\/action.smartgrowthamerica.org\/t\/3224\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2434<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for your help! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 76,000 Americans have been hit by cars while walking or biking in their communities in the last 15 years? Most of America&#8217;s roads are designed for cars &#8212; and for cars only. That doesn\u2019t make any sense in a country where one in three people doesn\u2019t have access to a car, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=164460923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tell Congress: Make walking and biking safe!&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164460923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164460923","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=164460923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164460923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164460923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164460923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164460923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}