{"id":196591221,"date":"2011-03-26T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196591221"},"modified":"2011-03-26T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T08:40:21","slug":"how-bikeable-is-maryland-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196591221","title":{"rendered":"How bikeable is Maryland &#8211; On NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a 20-year-old Johns Hopkins student was riding his bicycle in the bike lane on West University Boulevard in Baltimore when a car turned right across the bike lane, heading toward a driveway.  The bicyclist, Nathan Krasnopoler, ended up under the car, and in critical condition.  He\u2019s recovering, but the incident underscores the questions:  Despite laws it has passed, how bikeable is Maryland \u2013 and what would it take to improve safety for all Marylanders on the roads.<br \/>\nStu Sirota is  an urban planning consultant and president of TND Planning Group, a Towson-based firm that designs and plans walkable, bikable, and transit-friendly communities. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Bike Maryland, a statewide bicycle advocacy organization. We talk with him about how bike friendly Maryland actually is and what can be done to improve transit for all commuters.<br \/>\nListen to the broadcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/mdmorn.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/18\/3-18-11-how-best-to-bike\/\">https:\/\/mdmorn.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/18\/3-18-11-how-best-to-bike\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a 20-year-old Johns Hopkins student was riding his bicycle in the bike lane on West University Boulevard in Baltimore when a car turned right across the bike lane, heading toward a driveway. The bicyclist, Nathan Krasnopoler, ended up under the car, and in critical condition. He\u2019s recovering, but the incident underscores &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196591221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How bikeable is Maryland &#8211; On NPR&#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-196591221","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\/196591221","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=196591221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196591221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196591221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196591221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196591221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}