{"id":192636961,"date":"2011-02-08T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192636961"},"modified":"2011-02-08T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:16:01","slug":"biking-in-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192636961","title":{"rendered":"Biking in the Fast Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It amazes me how much drivers complain about automated speed enforcement with a 12mph over the speed limit cushion as it seems to be motorists &quot;right&quot; to do 15mph over the speed limit. Yet a cyclists doing 6mph over the speed limit needs to be enforced and I wounder how many motorists have they ticketed for doing &quot;just&quot; 6mph over the speed limit? How many crackdowns on road safety  have there been after motorists hit and run, especially after they caught the guy? I find such double standards extremely appalling.]<br \/>\n***********************************************************<br \/>\nBy Michael Lee Pope<br \/>\nIt may have been a first in the annals of law enforcement for the city, according to the Alexandria Police Department. Earlier this month, a city cop issued a speeding ticket to a bicyclist who was clocked going 31 in a 25. Alexandria Police Department spokeswoman Ashley Hildebrandt says the enforcement measure is part of a stepped-up effort to crack down on bicyclists flouting the laws on the streets of Old Town.<br \/>\n&quot;We\u2019ve been receiving a lot of complaints,&quot; said Hildebrandt. &quot;So we\u2019ve increased enforcement.&quot;<br \/>\nThe unusual speeding ticket comes on the heels of another incident in which a bicyclist hit a pedestrian and tried to flee the scene. But a band of citizens chased the hit-and-run biker down and detained him until authorities showed up to arrest him. Hildebrandt says that police officials are hoping the new increased wintertime enforcement will pay off when more bicyclists hit the road this spring.<br \/>\n&quot;We\u2019re hoping the word will get out,&quot; she said. &quot;Maybe we\u2019ll see fewer violations.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionnewspapers.com\/article.asp?article=347773&amp;paper=59&amp;cat=104\">https:\/\/www.connectionnewspapers.com\/article.asp?article=347773&amp;paper=59&amp;cat=104<\/a>oldId.20110208141601830<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It amazes me how much drivers complain about automated speed enforcement with a 12mph over the speed limit cushion as it seems to be motorists &quot;right&quot; to do 15mph over the speed limit. Yet a cyclists doing 6mph over the speed limit needs to be enforced and I wounder how many motorists have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=192636961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biking in the Fast Lane&#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-192636961","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\/192636961","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=192636961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192636961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192636961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192636961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192636961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}