{"id":244914744,"date":"2012-10-05T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244914744"},"modified":"2012-10-05T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:52:24","slug":"facilitating-cars-not-going-anywhere-trumps-bike-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244914744","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating cars not going anywhere trumps bike lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: I never really understood why it&#8217;s governments obligation to provide parking for businesses free of charge. If a business wants a parking let them pony up ~$2000 a spot every few years (IIRC). If businesses were actually paying for their parking we could move it from on-street to a vacant lot turned into a parking lot, we would have options to accommodate all users but as it is there is barely money to keep the status quo. Think about this: Exactly how much gas tax is generated by a stopped and parked car?<br \/>\nI know home owners that are charged for sidewalk repairs and alley repairs, so why are business exempt from on-street parking repairs?<br \/>\nBike lane in LaVale is an uphill journey<br \/>\nCost, parking logistics throw a monkey wrench in the works<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/times-news.com\/local\/x766439664\/Bike-lane-in-LaVale-is-an-uphill-journey\">https:\/\/times-news.com\/local\/x766439664\/Bike-lane-in-LaVale-is-an-uphill-journey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: I never really understood why it&#8217;s governments obligation to provide parking for businesses free of charge. If a business wants a parking let them pony up ~$2000 a spot every few years (IIRC). If businesses were actually paying for their parking we could move it from on-street to a vacant lot turned into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244914744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facilitating cars not going anywhere trumps bike lanes&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244914744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244914744","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=244914744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244914744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244914744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244914744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244914744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}