{"id":190379407,"date":"2011-01-13T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190379407"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:10:07","slug":"growing-demand-for-livable-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190379407","title":{"rendered":"Growing demand for livable communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Darren Flusche<br \/>\nLeague Policy Analyst<br \/>\nAccording to a survey recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57 percent of adult Americans say that their neighborhood features \u2013 like sidewalks, crosswalks, or lighting \u2013 are of high importance in determining their levels of physical activity.  About two-thirds of adults said they were willing to take \u201ccivic actions\u201d to improve neighborhood features.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNot surprisingly, the study concludes, \u201cthe biggest factor in determining a person\u2019s willingness to take civic action to improve neighborhood features was how important that person rated neighborhood features to be in determining her or his level of physical activity.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/growing-demand-for-livable-communities\/\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/growing-demand-for-livable-communities\/<\/a>oldId.2011011311100742<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Darren Flusche League Policy Analyst According to a survey recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57 percent of adult Americans say that their neighborhood features \u2013 like sidewalks, crosswalks, or lighting \u2013 are of high importance in determining their levels of physical activity. About two-thirds of adults said they were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190379407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing demand for livable communities&#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-190379407","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\/190379407","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=190379407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190379407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190379407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190379407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190379407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}