{"id":199812968,"date":"2011-05-02T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199812968"},"modified":"2011-05-02T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:36:08","slug":"how-much-do-you-walk-and-other-questions-from-america-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199812968","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do You Walk? \u2026And Other Questions From America Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Tanya Snyder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmericaWalks-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Microsoft PowerPoint - Pedestrians in Rural Context.ppt\" src=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmericaWalks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Got five minutes to help strengthen and refine pedestrian advocacy? <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/11\/16\/how-pedestrian-the-walking-movement-flexes-its-muscle\/#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America Walks<\/a> has put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/viewform?formkey=dDRqeG0tNDR4Y1NLU2NNX29S%20VU5rNlE6MQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> on walking habits, and they hope the answers will advance understanding of why people walk and what would motivate people to walk more. The survey explores, among other questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What motivates and sustains avid walkers? What deters others?<\/li>\n<li>How did they start walking, and what are their routines?<\/li>\n<li>What makes a neighborhood walkable or not?<\/li>\n<li>What do walkers believe are the psychological and physical benefits?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>America Walks is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to the rights of pedestrians. After 15 years of advocacy,&nbsp;it\u2019s in the process of reinventing itself, partnering with organizations from AARP to the National Associations of Realtors&nbsp;to get more people \u201cup off couch and walking out the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey closes in early June. <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/viewform?formkey=dDRqeG0tNDR4Y1NLU2NNX29S%20VU5rNlE6MQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to start.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/05\/02\/how-much-do-you-walk-and-other-questions-from-america-walks\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/05\/02\/how-much-do-you-walk-and-other-questions-from-america-walks\/<\/a>oldId.20110502153608557<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Tanya Snyder Got five minutes to help strengthen and refine pedestrian advocacy? America Walks has put out a survey on walking habits, and they hope the answers will advance understanding of why people walk and what would motivate people to walk more. The survey explores, among other questions: What motivates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199812968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Much Do You Walk? \u2026And Other Questions From America Walks&#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-199812968","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\/199812968","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=199812968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199812968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199812968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199812968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199812968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}