{"id":217438809,"date":"2011-11-22T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217438809"},"modified":"2011-11-22T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:40:09","slug":"city-has-80-lane-miles-of-sharrow-installation-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217438809","title":{"rendered":"City has 80 lane miles of sharrow installation planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Note that the Baltimore metro area has spent $0, not&#8217;a, zilch on bike\/ped projects from CMAQ (which will fund 80% of the project costs.)]<br \/>\n*******************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Alix Bryan<br \/>\nRICHMOND, Va. (WTVR)\u2014<br \/>\nThe city has begun it first installation of bicycle sharrows. Over the next year approximately 80 lane miles of sharrows will be installed, said the city.<br \/>\nThe pavement markings are part of the city\u2019s capital improvement plans and are intended to improve bicycling conditions on Richmond roads. The project is funded mostly by both the Commonwealth Transportation Board and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ).<br \/>\nTotal costs of the project are estimated at $775,000, said the city in a press release.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSpecifically, sharrows are markings placed on pavement to indicate that bicyclists are also allowed full use of the lane.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUnlike bicycle lanes, the symbols do not designate a particular part of the street for the exclusive use of bicyclists.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/wtvr-first-bike-sharrow-markings-now-on-meadow-and-harrison-streets-20111121,0,1861969.story\">https:\/\/www.wtvr.com\/news\/wtvr-first-bike-sharrow-markings-now-on-meadow-and-harrison-streets-20111121,0,1861969.story<\/a>oldId.20111122154009985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Note that the Baltimore metro area has spent $0, not&#8217;a, zilch on bike\/ped projects from CMAQ (which will fund 80% of the project costs.)] ******************************************************************************************************************* By Alix Bryan RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR)\u2014 The city has begun it first installation of bicycle sharrows. Over the next year approximately 80 lane miles of sharrows will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217438809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City has 80 lane miles of sharrow installation planned&#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-217438809","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\/217438809","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=217438809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217438809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217438809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217438809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217438809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}