{"id":208970060,"date":"2011-08-16T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208970060"},"modified":"2011-08-16T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:14:20","slug":"biking-and-walking-supported-by-the-taxes-we-pay-not-road-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208970060","title":{"rendered":"Biking and walking supported by the taxes WE pay not &quot;road tax&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>found via TheWashCycle:<br \/>\nOf the $1B &quot;the federal government spent on programs to promote biking and walking in 2010,&quot; $400M of that is from the stimulus bill, so it really has nothing to do with the highway trust fund, and it&#8217;s deceptive to include it in this discussion. The remaining $600M is dwarfed by the $19.5B that was transferred from the general fund. Even without it, they&#8217;re still nearly $19B short. So we could say that biking and walking were entirely supported by the general fund, which means it has nothing to do with the shortage.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/08\/monday-morning-commute-blame-game.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/08\/monday-morning-commute-blame-game.html<\/a>oldId.20110816151420107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>found via TheWashCycle: Of the $1B &quot;the federal government spent on programs to promote biking and walking in 2010,&quot; $400M of that is from the stimulus bill, so it really has nothing to do with the highway trust fund, and it&#8217;s deceptive to include it in this discussion. The remaining $600M is dwarfed by the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=208970060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biking and walking supported by the taxes WE pay not &quot;road tax&quot;&#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-208970060","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\/208970060","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=208970060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208970060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208970060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208970060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208970060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}