{"id":175257716,"date":"2010-07-22T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175257716"},"modified":"2010-07-22T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:41:56","slug":"l-a-s-newly-biking-mayor-still-doesnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175257716","title":{"rendered":"L.A.\u2019s Newly Biking Mayor Still Doesn\u2019t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog.net by Biking in LA<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHis Honor may have written \u2014 and Tweeted \u2014 that bikes belong on L.A. streets and he\u2019ll be back on a bike as soon as he\u2019s able. But according to the Daily Breeze, Villaraigosa insists that the cab driver shouldn\u2019t face charges.<br \/>\n    \u201cHe was very concerned when he realized it was me,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cHe was careless, but that\u2019s not illegal. He certainly didn\u2019t do this on purpose.\u201d<br \/>\nThat\u2019s where the Mayor is wrong \u2014 and where he\u2019s done a huge disservice to everyone else on the roads, especially his new friends in the cycling community.<br \/>\nBecause what the driver did was illegal. He pulled away from the curb without making sure the bike lane he was parked next to was clear. And as a result, caused a cyclist to be injured.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called failure to yield. And it is against the law.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bikinginla.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/21\/l-a-%e2%80%99s-newly-biking-mayor-still-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-it\/\">https:\/\/bikinginla.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/21\/l-a-%e2%80%99s-newly-biking-mayor-still-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-it\/<\/a>oldId.20100722104156573<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog.net by Biking in LA &#8230; His Honor may have written \u2014 and Tweeted \u2014 that bikes belong on L.A. streets and he\u2019ll be back on a bike as soon as he\u2019s able. But according to the Daily Breeze, Villaraigosa insists that the cab driver shouldn\u2019t face charges. \u201cHe was very concerned when he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=175257716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;L.A.\u2019s Newly Biking Mayor Still Doesn\u2019t Get It&#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-175257716","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\/175257716","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=175257716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175257716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175257716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175257716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175257716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}