{"id":201903583,"date":"2011-05-26T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201903583"},"modified":"2011-05-26T20:19:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:19:43","slug":"as-gas-prices-rise-bicycle-ridership-is-up-so-why-are-some-lawmakers-trying-gutting-bike-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201903583","title":{"rendered":"As Gas Prices Rise, Bicycle Ridership Is Up &#8212; So Why Are [Some] Lawmakers [Trying] Gutting Bike Programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by  People for Bikes \/ By Jay Walljasper<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s some troubling news: much of the talk around Washington and state capitals this year is about eliminating or slashing these successful programs. That\u2019s penny-wise and dollar-dumb. Biking and walking comprise only 1.5 percent of the overall federal transportation budget, while they account for 12 percent of all trips made by Americans today.<br \/>\nIndeed, the entire price tag for more than 3,000 federally funded bike and pedestrian projects across 50 states last year amounted to less than half the cost of one highly contested highway project in Maryland that opened this spring.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/151090\/as_gas_prices_rise,_bicycle_ridership_is_up_--_so_why_are_lawmakers_gutting_bike_programs\">https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/151090\/as_gas_prices_rise,_bicycle_ridership_is_up_&#8211;_so_why_are_lawmakers_gutting_bike_programs<\/a>oldId.20110526201943205<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by People for Bikes \/ By Jay Walljasper &#8230; But here\u2019s some troubling news: much of the talk around Washington and state capitals this year is about eliminating or slashing these successful programs. That\u2019s penny-wise and dollar-dumb. Biking and walking comprise only 1.5 percent of the overall federal transportation budget, while they account for 12 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=201903583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As Gas Prices Rise, Bicycle Ridership Is Up &#8212; So Why Are [Some] Lawmakers [Trying] Gutting Bike Programs?&#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-201903583","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\/201903583","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=201903583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201903583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201903583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201903583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201903583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}