{"id":229712113,"date":"2012-04-12T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=229712113"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:55:13","slug":"why-bicyclists-are-better-customers-than-drivers-for-local-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=229712113","title":{"rendered":"Why Bicyclists Are Better Customers Than Drivers for Local Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog<br \/>\nDo local and state officials tune out when you try to talk to them about bicycling? Are they unconvinced by arguments about public health, transportation options, or clean air? Do business leaders send you packing when you suggest building new bike lanes and bike parking, fearing that the loss of car parking will keep customers away?<br \/>\nThen show them the money.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThat closeness has a dollars-and-cents value. Cyclists travel at what Portland Bike Coordinator Roger Geller calls a \u201chuman-scale speed\u201d that allows them to \u201cstop and buy something.\u201d Besides, Economides said, if you\u2019re car-free you\u2019ve got an extra $6,000 jangling around in your pocket that you otherwise would have spent on gas and car maintenance (actually, $8,776 if you believe AAA). According to researchers with Intelligent Communities, a program of the National Building Museum, only 16 percent of household car expenses stay within the local economy.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2012\/03\/23\/why-bicyclists-are-better-customers-than-drivers-for-local-business\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2012\/03\/23\/why-bicyclists-are-better-customers-than-drivers-for-local-business\/<\/a>oldId.20120412165513918<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Snyder, Streets Blog Do local and state officials tune out when you try to talk to them about bicycling? Are they unconvinced by arguments about public health, transportation options, or clean air? Do business leaders send you packing when you suggest building new bike lanes and bike parking, fearing that the loss of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=229712113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Bicyclists Are Better Customers Than Drivers for Local 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-229712113","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\/229712113","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=229712113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229712113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229712113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229712113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229712113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}