{"id":174831488,"date":"2010-07-17T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=174831488"},"modified":"2010-07-17T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T12:18:08","slug":"cyclists-keep-riding-northeast-branch-trail-despite-spat-of-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=174831488","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists keep riding Northeast Branch trail despite spat of crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrols have been upped since robberies, assaults along Northeast Branch Trail<br \/>\nby Elahe Izadi | Staff Writer<br \/>\nCyclists aren&#8217;t letting a spat of June crimes on a trail that runs through Riverdale Park deter their biking habits.<br \/>\nThree incidents in June where pedestrians and cyclists were robbed or assaulted along the Northeast Branch trail have caused Maryland-National Capital Park Police to increase patrols and community members to encourage others to use the trails more frequently.<br \/>\nThe trail starts in College Park and ends near the Hyattsville\/Edmonston border.<br \/>\nScot Brown, a member of the Hyattsville Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, organized a safe ride June 26 as a &quot;show of force that the community cares and we&#8217;re going to show up and we&#8217;re going to respond.&quot;<br \/>\nAbout 35 residents, as well as Hyattsville officials and park, Hyattsville and Riverdale Park police, biked and walked portions of the trail as part of the safe ride and information about trail safety was handed out to residents.<br \/>\n&quot;I wanted to promote the trails as a safe natural resource and a great community resource for everyone in this area,&quot; Brown said. &quot;I also wanted to put out there the idea that the more heavily used these trails are the more safe they are.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/07152010\/collnew174535_32537.php\">https:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/07152010\/collnew174535_32537.php<\/a>oldId.20100717121808945<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrols have been upped since robberies, assaults along Northeast Branch Trail by Elahe Izadi | Staff Writer Cyclists aren&#8217;t letting a spat of June crimes on a trail that runs through Riverdale Park deter their biking habits. Three incidents in June where pedestrians and cyclists were robbed or assaulted along the Northeast Branch trail have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=174831488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclists keep riding Northeast Branch trail despite spat of crimes&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174831488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174831488","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=174831488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174831488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174831488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174831488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174831488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}