{"id":216231769,"date":"2011-11-08T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216231769"},"modified":"2011-11-08T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:22:49","slug":"bicycling-could-save-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216231769","title":{"rendered":"BICYCLING COULD SAVE BILLIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If people chose to take half of their car trips on two wheels instead of four, health care costs could drop by billions.<br \/>\nBy Emily Sohn<br \/>\nTHE GIST<br \/>\n* Biking instead of driving could save billions of dollars in health costs and thousands of lives.<br \/>\n* Cities with more biking infrastructure see lower rates of disease.<br \/>\n********************************************<br \/>\nCompared to driving, bicycling is clearly better for the environment and your health. But how much better is it?<br \/>\nA new study offers some hard numbers: If people in the upper Midwest chose to take half of their car trips by bicycle, health care costs would drop by $7 billion. And with better air quality for its now more-fit citizens, the region would end up with an estimated 1,100 fewer deaths each year.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.discovery.com\/adventure\/bicycle-billions-111103.html\">https:\/\/news.discovery.com\/adventure\/bicycle-billions-111103.html<\/a>oldId.20111108162249605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people chose to take half of their car trips on two wheels instead of four, health care costs could drop by billions. By Emily Sohn THE GIST * Biking instead of driving could save billions of dollars in health costs and thousands of lives. * Cities with more biking infrastructure see lower rates of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216231769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BICYCLING COULD SAVE BILLIONS&#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-216231769","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\/216231769","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=216231769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216231769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216231769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216231769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216231769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}