{"id":210217900,"date":"2011-08-31T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210217900"},"modified":"2011-08-31T01:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:51:40","slug":"prix-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210217900","title":{"rendered":"Prix Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the City Paper &#8211; The Mail<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in total agreement with the letters of both Charlie Cooper and Tom Chalkley that the Rawlings-Blake City Hall\u2019s bet that the Baltimore Grand Prix will be a money maker is wishful thinking (\u201cRace to the Bottom Line,\u201d The Mail, Aug. 24). A much more forward-looking investment would have been to upgrade all our major streets for bicycle traffic. Establishing Baltimore\u2019s reputation as the mid-Atlantic\u2019s most bicycle-friendly place to live would have enticed the  growing, upwardly mobile, bicycling-to-work population that\u2019s out there to put down roots here and become solid, tax-paying citizens for decades to come. Unfortunately, it seems, City Hall has chosen to remain mired in backwardness and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Herman M. Heyn<br \/>\nBaltimore<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/citypaper.com\/news\/young-enough-1.1195525\">https:\/\/citypaper.com\/news\/young-enough-1.1195525<\/a>oldId.20110831015140420<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the City Paper &#8211; The Mail I\u2019m in total agreement with the letters of both Charlie Cooper and Tom Chalkley that the Rawlings-Blake City Hall\u2019s bet that the Baltimore Grand Prix will be a money maker is wishful thinking (\u201cRace to the Bottom Line,\u201d The Mail, Aug. 24). A much more forward-looking investment would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210217900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prix Fix&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210217900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210217900","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=210217900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210217900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210217900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210217900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210217900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}