{"id":169138745,"date":"2010-05-12T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169138745"},"modified":"2010-05-12T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:59:05","slug":"look-what-us-dot-considers-transportation-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169138745","title":{"rendered":"Look what US DOT considers transportation users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here at DOT we support the First Lady&#8217;s efforts wholeheartedly, and we&#8217;re particularly interested in the report&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.letsmove.gov\/tfco_increasing_physical_activity.pdf\" title=\"Download TFCO Report Chapter V: &quot;Increasing Physical Activity&quot; in PDF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter V: Increasing Physical Activity<\/a>, which includes a section on &#8220;The Built Environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/usdotblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e551eea4f58834013480ad120d970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids on bikes\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/6a00e551eea4f58834013480ad120d970c-500pi\" title=\"Kids on bikes\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> We know that our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/letsmove.gov\/join\/index.html\" title=\"Join America's move to raise a healthier generation of kids\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;all-digital-all-the-time world&#8221;<\/a> doesn&#8217;t always encourage us to live the healthiest lives we can. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re working hard to make it easier for Americans to walk or bike safely in their communities. And when kids see that more adults are choosing to walk or bike, they are more likely to exercise healthier transportation options.<\/p>\n<p> And walking and biking aren&#8217;t just good for our health; they&#8217;re good<br \/>\n for our environment, and they&#8217;re ways of getting around that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/04\/what-we-know-about-bike-infrastructure-people-want-it.html\" title=\"Fastlane: What we know about bike-ped  infrastructure: Americans want it\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Americans have said they want<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/usdotblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e551eea4f58834013480ac6be8970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That&#8217;s why, in March, we announced our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.gov\/affairs\/2010\/bicycle-ped.html\" title=\"United States Department of Transportation Policy Statement on Bicycle and Pedestrian Accommodation Regulations and Recommendations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new bicycle and pedestrian policy initiative<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s why, last year, we established our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.gov\/livability\/101.html\" title=\"Read our livability prnciples on our new DOT: Livability 101 page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Livability Principles<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s why we support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saferoutesinfo.org\" title=\"National Center for Safe Routes to School\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe Routes to School<\/a> programs.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s why we support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2009\/11\/report-calls-for-safer-roadway-planning.html\" title=\"Fastlane: Report, petition call for safer roadways\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Complete Streets<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve used <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.gov\/documents\/finaltigergrantinfo.pdf\" title=\"Download a PDF portfolio of our TIGER awards\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIGER discretionary funds<\/a> to support projects that benefit their communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/05\/dot-first-lady-childhood-obesity-task-force-share-goal-lets-move.html\">https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/05\/dot-first-lady-childhood-obesity-task-force-share-goal-lets-move.html<\/a>oldId.20100512145905804<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Here at DOT we support the First Lady&#8217;s efforts wholeheartedly, and we&#8217;re particularly interested in the report&#8217;s Chapter V: Increasing Physical Activity, which includes a section on &#8220;The Built Environment.&#8221; We know that our &#8220;all-digital-all-the-time world&#8221; doesn&#8217;t always encourage us to live the healthiest lives we can. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re working hard to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169138745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look what US DOT considers transportation users&#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-169138745","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\/169138745","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=169138745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169138745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169138745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169138745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169138745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}