{"id":212543193,"date":"2011-09-26T23:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T23:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212543193"},"modified":"2011-09-26T23:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T23:46:33","slug":"fix-bridges-or-accommodate-bike-ped-in-the-federal-transportation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212543193","title":{"rendered":"Fix bridges or accommodate bike\/ped in the Federal Transportation bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The League of American Bicyclists makes this excellent point:<br \/>\n&quot;Safety: Thirteen people died when the Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007: since then, close to 20,000 pedestrians and 2,800 cyclists have died on our nation\u2019s highways, largely as a result of poor highway design and an historic lack of safe non-motorized infrastructure \u2013 exactly what the enhancement program was created to fix. No bridges have collapsed since 2007.&quot;<br \/>\nB&#8217; Spokes: Of course the real issues is it&#8217;s not bike\/ped spending that&#8217;s keeping bridges from being fixed, it&#8217;s over stressing capacity building that is returning less and less value on the dollar.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/kentucky-senator-suggests-bikeped-funding-switch\/\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/kentucky-senator-suggests-bikeped-funding-switch\/<\/a>oldId.20110926234633869<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The League of American Bicyclists makes this excellent point: &quot;Safety: Thirteen people died when the Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007: since then, close to 20,000 pedestrians and 2,800 cyclists have died on our nation\u2019s highways, largely as a result of poor highway design and an historic lack of safe non-motorized infrastructure \u2013 exactly what the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=212543193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fix bridges or accommodate bike\/ped in the Federal Transportation bill?&#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-212543193","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\/212543193","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=212543193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212543193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212543193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212543193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212543193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}