{"id":222631448,"date":"2012-01-21T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222631448"},"modified":"2012-01-21T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:04:08","slug":"cycles-and-cents-one-city-sets-out-to-prove-that-bikes-are-good-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222631448","title":{"rendered":"Cycles and cents: One city sets out to prove that bikes are good for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By BY MARK HERTSGAARD, Grist<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPerhaps most innovative has been the city\u2019s effort to establish bike-friendly shopping districts \u2014 the first in the country, officials say \u2014 engaging local merchants by showing them how, contrary to common belief, biking can actually bring more customers and vitality to shopping districts.<br \/>\n\u201cThe math is pretty simple,\u201d says April Economides, the principal of Green Octopus Consulting and the leader of the city\u2019s outreach to local businesses. \u201cYou can park 12 bikes in the amount of space it takes to park one car. And someone who shifts from owning a car to a bicycle tends to have more discretionary income, because, for a commuter, the typical cost of a bicycle is $300 a year, compared to $7,000 a year for a car.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/biking\/2012-01-11-cycles-and-cents-one-city-sets-out-to-prove-that-bikes-are-good\/\">https:\/\/grist.org\/biking\/2012-01-11-cycles-and-cents-one-city-sets-out-to-prove-that-bikes-are-good\/<\/a>oldId.20120121180408484<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BY MARK HERTSGAARD, Grist &#8230; Perhaps most innovative has been the city\u2019s effort to establish bike-friendly shopping districts \u2014 the first in the country, officials say \u2014 engaging local merchants by showing them how, contrary to common belief, biking can actually bring more customers and vitality to shopping districts. \u201cThe math is pretty simple,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=222631448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycles and cents: One city sets out to prove that bikes are good for business&#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-222631448","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\/222631448","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=222631448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222631448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222631448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222631448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222631448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}