{"id":182624738,"date":"2010-10-15T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182624738"},"modified":"2010-10-15T17:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:05:38","slug":"americans-need-to-walk-more-and-peer-to-peer-car-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182624738","title":{"rendered":"Americans need to walk more and peer-to-peer car sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes:The bit that got my attention from Streetsblog Capitol Hill]<br \/>\n*******************************************************************************<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n    Using pedometers to collect data on 1,136 Americans, researchers found that they averaged 5,117 steps a day. (A mile is roughly 2,000 steps.) Meanwhile Australians averaged 9,695 steps a day, the Swiss clocked in at 9,650, and the Japanese puttered about at 7,168 paces.<br \/>\n    The report\u2019s lead author, David R. Bassett of the University of Tennessee, blames America\u2019s poor performance on its auto obsession and lack of public transportation: \u201cPeople do have to exercise,\u201d he said. \u201cBut our overall environment does not lend itself to promoting an active lifestyle.\u201d<br \/>\nBassett told Reuters, \u201cFive thousand steps is really pretty inactive,\u201d estimating that Americans would need to walk for another 30 to 40 minutes per day to catch up to other countries. Interestingly, findings were similar for suburban, urban and rural dwellers. Maybe some suburbs and rural areas are more walkable than others, and some cities less so.<br \/>\nElsewhere on the Network today: Bike Portland offers a tutorial on peer-to-peer car sharing, following California\u2019s actions to remove legal hurdles to the activity.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2010\/10\/15\/the-fitness-gap-americans-walk-far-less-than-people-in-other-countries\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2010\/10\/15\/the-fitness-gap-americans-walk-far-less-than-people-in-other-countries\/<\/a>oldId.2010101517053851<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes:The bit that got my attention from Streetsblog Capitol Hill] ******************************************************************************* &#8230; Using pedometers to collect data on 1,136 Americans, researchers found that they averaged 5,117 steps a day. (A mile is roughly 2,000 steps.) Meanwhile Australians averaged 9,695 steps a day, the Swiss clocked in at 9,650, and the Japanese puttered about at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182624738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Americans need to walk more and peer-to-peer car sharing&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182624738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182624738","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=182624738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182624738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182624738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182624738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182624738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}