{"id":226367971,"date":"2012-03-04T23:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=226367971"},"modified":"2012-03-04T23:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:59:31","slug":"family-friends-and-cyclists-remember-krasnopoler-and-pledge-to-fight-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=226367971","title":{"rendered":"Family, friends and cyclists remember Krasnopoler \u2013 and pledge to fight for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Brew Editors, Baltimore Brew<\/p>\n<p>Bicyclists who generally use their bikes for transportation and pleasure turned them into vehicles for mourning and advocacy Sunday, as they gathered to remember fallen Baltimore cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler.<\/p>\n<p>On the one-year-anniversary of the accident on a city bike lane that claimed the life of the 20-year-old, about a dozen cyclists toured Baltimore wearing orange vests that said \u201cNathan\u2019s Ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their seven-mile memorial ride took them along Guilford Ave. designated as the city\u2019s \u201cbike boulevard,\u201d and along Mount Royal Ave., where cycling advocates are pushing the city to resist pressure to kill a planned bike lane.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to make Maryland roads safer,\u201d Cohen said, reviewing the legislation the family has been promoting in the Maryland General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The bills they\u2019re pushing would require Maryland drivers to pass competency tests and would increase penalties for failure to remain on the scene of a serious accident.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2012\/02\/27\/family-friends-and-cyclists-remember-krasnopoler-and-pledge-to-fight-for-him\/\">https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2012\/02\/27\/family-friends-and-cyclists-remember-krasnopoler-and-pledge-to-fight-for-him\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brew Editors, Baltimore Brew Bicyclists who generally use their bikes for transportation and pleasure turned them into vehicles for mourning and advocacy Sunday, as they gathered to remember fallen Baltimore cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler. On the one-year-anniversary of the accident on a city bike lane that claimed the life of the 20-year-old, about a dozen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=226367971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family, friends and cyclists remember Krasnopoler \u2013 and pledge to fight for him&#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-226367971","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\/226367971","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=226367971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226367971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226367971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226367971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226367971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}