{"id":172924427,"date":"2010-06-25T10:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172924427"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T10:33:47","slug":"aldermen-take-steps-to-make-frederick-more-bicycle-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172924427","title":{"rendered":"Aldermen take steps to make Frederick more bicycle-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Christian Brown<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n    The Board of Aldermen approved on June 3 an action plan to educate and encourage residents to ride bicycles and to design a more bicycle-friendly city.<br \/>\n    If the city were to attain this status, it would be the only community in Maryland to have it, according to Tim Davis, the city&#8217;s traffic engineer.<br \/>\n    One of the requirements for a community to be named bicycle-friendly is that it needs to have active bicycler advocacy groups, which Frederick has in the form of the Frederick Pedalers and the Frederick Bicycle Coalition.<br \/>\n    Kelso pointed out that Rockville was once named a bicycle-friendly community, but lost the designation because the city was &quot;resting on [its] laurels.&quot;<br \/>\n    &quot;Have you seen Rockville Pike,&quot; Alderman Kelly Russell (D) joked.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/06102010\/frednew152640_32556.php\">https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/06102010\/frednew152640_32556.php<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20100625103347315<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christian Brown &#8230; The Board of Aldermen approved on June 3 an action plan to educate and encourage residents to ride bicycles and to design a more bicycle-friendly city. If the city were to attain this status, it would be the only community in Maryland to have it, according to Tim Davis, the city&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172924427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aldermen take steps to make Frederick more bicycle-friendly&#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-172924427","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\/172924427","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=172924427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172924427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172924427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172924427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172924427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}