{"id":198325348,"date":"2011-04-15T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198325348"},"modified":"2011-04-15T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:22:28","slug":"wheel-politik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198325348","title":{"rendered":"Wheel politik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Miller<br \/>\nGil Penalosa hit it right on the head.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a political problem,\u201d he said, referring to the difficulty encountered by those who try to get around this county on foot or on bicycles. Penalosa directs the advocacy group called 8-80 Cities. He was here last week as part of the Columbia Association Speaker Series.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need to inform our leaders, build partnerships with them,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s begun to happen, particularly among cyclists, who have been galvanized by martyrs like Nathan Krasnopoler. The  Johns Hopkins University sophomore from Ellicott City has been in a coma since he was struck by a car as he rode his bicycle on University Parkway in Baltimore. He is not expected to recover.<br \/>\nCycling advocates won a victory in Annapolis this session in getting a bill passed that would allow prosecutors to seek stiffer penalties against drivers whose negligence kills cyclists. They have begun to feel their oats as a political force.<br \/>\nBut politics is about conflict, remember, and motorists who see cyclists as a self-important impediment to the daily commute are pushing back, railing in print and online against their presence on roads built to accommodate auto traffic.<br \/>\nAnd if that backlash ever coalesces, watch out, riders. Such a force would be to the bicycle-riding public as the Republican Party is to the Greens.<br \/>\nIf politics is the art of compromise, some artistry is called for here.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorehoward.com\/blog\/dougout-chatter\/132\/wheel-politik\/\">https:\/\/www.explorehoward.com\/blog\/dougout-chatter\/132\/wheel-politik\/<\/a>oldId.20110415102228586<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Miller Gil Penalosa hit it right on the head. \u201cIt\u2019s a political problem,\u201d he said, referring to the difficulty encountered by those who try to get around this county on foot or on bicycles. Penalosa directs the advocacy group called 8-80 Cities. He was here last week as part of the Columbia Association &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198325348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wheel politik&#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-198325348","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\/198325348","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=198325348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198325348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198325348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198325348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198325348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}