{"id":230399147,"date":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=230399147"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","slug":"help-us-chart-our-bike-future-take-the-survey-on-unification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=230399147","title":{"rendered":"Help Us Chart our Bike Future: Take the Survey on Unification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, Leauge of American Bicyclists<\/p>\n<p>In late February, we announced a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/new-national-plan-to-transform-bicycling\/\">New National Plan to Transform Bicycling<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the potential unification of the League, Bikes Belong and the Alliance for Biking &amp; Walking into one, powerful national organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Merged-logos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7369 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Merged logos\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Merged-logos-512x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>With more than 40 comments on that blog post, we know you want to share your ideas and feedback \u2014 and we want to hear it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please take this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikefuture.org\/\">quick survey<\/a> at BikeFuture.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of work ahead,\u201d Hans van Naerssen, Chair of the League\u2019s board and a member of the transition team, said in the announcement. \u201cWe must determine how to combine the diverse strengths of a powerful alliance of state and local organizations, a storied national user group, and a vibrant industry association in a way that preserves their unique attributes and realizes the game-changing potential of a single entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share your insight \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikefuture.org\/\">Take the survey now<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/help-us-chart-our-bike-future-take-the-survey-on-unification\/\">https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/help-us-chart-our-bike-future-take-the-survey-on-unification\/<\/a>oldId.20120420154547888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, Leauge of American Bicyclists In late February, we announced a \u201cNew National Plan to Transform Bicycling\u201d \u2014 the potential unification of the League, Bikes Belong and the Alliance for Biking &amp; Walking into one, powerful national organization. With more than 40 comments on that blog post, we know you want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=230399147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help Us Chart our Bike Future: Take the Survey on Unification&#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-230399147","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\/230399147","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=230399147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230399147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230399147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230399147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230399147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}