{"id":197490078,"date":"2011-04-05T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197490078"},"modified":"2011-04-05T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:21:18","slug":"why-people-dont-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197490078","title":{"rendered":"Why People Don\u2019t Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I find it interesting to note that Maryland still stress trails over bike lanes.]<br \/>\n****************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nI found the results of a survey that was recently taken in Arlington County, Virginia which asked the question &#8211; \u201cWhat cold Arlington County do to make it easier for you to ride a bike.\u201d  Although the survey was conducted in a single county, I believe that the results would apply to most other parts of the country.  The survey include over 4000 people.  The answers and percentage of survey responses are listed below.<br \/>\n\tSeparate bicycle lane\t\t\t15%<br \/>\n\tMore bike trails\t\t\t\t10%<br \/>\n\tMake it safer\t\t\t\t\t6%<br \/>\n\tMore bike racks\/lockers\t\t5%<br \/>\n\tLighting on bike paths\/lanes\t3%<br \/>\n\tRoad signs to alert drivers\t\t3%<br \/>\n\tProvide bike share\/rentals\t3%<br \/>\n\tMore connections to trails\t\t3%<br \/>\n\tOther\t\t\t\t\t\t16%<br \/>\n\tDon\u2019t know\t\t\t\t\t8%<br \/>\n\tNothing would encourage me\t38%<br \/>\n The positive result is that 54% of the people that responded had an idea of something that would encourage them to bike.  Only the last category (Nothing would encourage me) which accounted for 38% of the results appeared adamantly opposed to biking.  Perhaps higher gas prices would encourage them to bike.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bicyclespokesman.com\/why-people-dont-bike\/\">https:\/\/bicyclespokesman.com\/why-people-dont-bike\/<\/a>oldId.2011040518211873<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I find it interesting to note that Maryland still stress trails over bike lanes.] **************************************************************************************************** I found the results of a survey that was recently taken in Arlington County, Virginia which asked the question &#8211; \u201cWhat cold Arlington County do to make it easier for you to ride a bike.\u201d Although the survey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197490078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why People Don\u2019t Bike&#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-197490078","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\/197490078","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=197490078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197490078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197490078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197490078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197490078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}