{"id":165603228,"date":"2010-04-01T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165603228"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:53:48","slug":"its-official-robert-highways-are-environmentally-friendly-but-bikeways-are-not-ehrlich-plans-to-rematch-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165603228","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Robert &#8220;Highways are environmentally friendly but bikeways are not&#8221;  Ehrlich plans to rematch O&#8217;Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I will give former Governor credit for pushing through MD&#8217;s portion of the Great  Allegheny Passage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atatrail.org\/\">https:\/\/www.atatrail.org\/<\/a>) But his choice for Secretary of Transportation (Robert Flanagan) resulted in the most draconian period for cyclists in this state in recent years. Flanagan wielded MDOT&#8217;s policy of accommodating cyclists where &quot;practical and feasible&quot;  as a carte blanche rule for violating state law that the needs of cyclists MUST be considered in ALL transportation projects. Under Flanagan&#8217;s tenure Government employees where threaten to support the state&#8217;s position on the ICC trail or be fired. Flanagan in testimony before the legislature bragged about coming in under budget  $40 million for years in a row while denying cycling accommodations as &quot;too expensive&quot; that would be only a small fraction of that amount. I will strongly assert  any government agency that comes in under budget by that large of an amount is not performing its duties to the citizens of this state. <\/p>\n<p>I feel that it is my duty to inform all those who support cycling that during Ehrlich&#8217;s administration the most absurd and laughable assertion ever that a bike trail is not environmentally friendly while a multi-lane highway full of single occupancy vehicles is environmentally friendly. We have made progress in undermining Ehrlich &#8216;s anti-ICC trail and a change back to that administrations could jeopardize that progress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/annapolis\/2010\/03\/ehrlich_to_face_omalley.html\">https:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/annapolis\/2010\/03\/ehrlich_to_face_omalley.html<\/a>oldId.20100401165348664<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I will give former Governor credit for pushing through MD&#8217;s portion of the Great Allegheny Passage (https:\/\/www.atatrail.org\/) But his choice for Secretary of Transportation (Robert Flanagan) resulted in the most draconian period for cyclists in this state in recent years. Flanagan wielded MDOT&#8217;s policy of accommodating cyclists where &quot;practical and feasible&quot; as a carte &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=165603228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Official: Robert &#8220;Highways are environmentally friendly but bikeways are not&#8221;  Ehrlich plans to rematch O&#8217;Malley&#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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165603228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165603228","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=165603228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165603228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165603228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165603228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165603228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}