{"id":180899217,"date":"2010-09-25T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180899217"},"modified":"2010-09-25T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:46:57","slug":"alert-added-vigil-held-for-green-party-candidate-natasha-pettigrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180899217","title":{"rendered":"(Alert added) Vigil Held for Green Party Candidate, Natasha Pettigrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox news has some nice coverage of the event (link after the fold) but I will highlight this bit:<br \/>\n&quot;Henry [Natasha&#8217;s mother] says she wanted the vigil to call attention to the need for more bike lanes in Prince Georges County.<br \/>\nIt is a cause she&#8217;s vowing to take to state lawmakers in Annapolis and also Congress.&quot;<br \/>\nFunny she should mention that as that has been one of the issues we have been covering. As far as I am aware Maryland is the ONLY State where Federal Transportation Enhancement (TE) money CANNOT be spent on bike lanes. Maryland has the LOWEST spending of TE money on bike\/ped projects of all the states. And before rescissions Maryland had over $20 million in non-obligated funds (money in need of projects to fund.) This is just obscene to have this kind of money available and not allowing it to address a need.<br \/>\nPer State Law \u00a7 2-606. Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. (MBPAC)<br \/>\n(a)  Purpose.- The Governor shall appoint a Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee to provide guidance to State agencies concerning: (1) Funding of bicycle and pedestrian related programs;<br \/>\nSo if you want to see a change for more bike lanes (or sharrows, shoulders or just wide lanes) write Chairperson Jim Swift &lt;jks36@verizon.net&gt;;<br \/>\ncc: MBPAC staff Michael Jackson &lt;mjackson3@mdot.state.md.us&gt;;<br \/>\nand your local rep (which can be found via <a href=\"https:\/\/mdelect.net\/\">https:\/\/mdelect.net\/<\/a> )<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFox coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/vigil-held-for-green-party-candidate,-natasha-pettigrew\">https:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/vigil-held-for-green-party-candidate,-natasha-pettigrew<\/a><br \/>\nMBPAC web page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdot.maryland.gov\/Planning\/Bicycle\/MBPAC.html\">https:\/\/www.mdot.maryland.gov\/Planning\/Bicycle\/MBPAC.html<\/a>oldId.20100925174657585<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox news has some nice coverage of the event (link after the fold) but I will highlight this bit: &quot;Henry [Natasha&#8217;s mother] says she wanted the vigil to call attention to the need for more bike lanes in Prince Georges County. It is a cause she&#8217;s vowing to take to state lawmakers in Annapolis and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=180899217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Alert added) Vigil Held for Green Party Candidate, Natasha Pettigrew&#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-180899217","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\/180899217","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=180899217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180899217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180899217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180899217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180899217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}