{"id":258142164,"date":"2013-03-07T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258142164"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:09:24","slug":"sen-cardin-embraced-at-natl-bike-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258142164","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cardin Embraced at Nat\u2019l Bike Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ron Cassie, Baltimore magazine<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHowever, Cardin, with Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, \u201csaved\u201d the legislation with an amendment that provided local governments direct access to most federal transportation funding \u2014 rather than being required to go through various state DOT\u2019s \u2014 enabling them to build sidewalks and bike lanes, for example, to encourage and keep bicyclists and pedestrians safe. If the local communities so choose.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoremagazine.net\/bikeshorts\/2013\/03\/sen-cardin-embraced-at-nat-l-bike-summit\">https:\/\/www.baltimoremagazine.net\/bikeshorts\/2013\/03\/sen-cardin-embraced-at-nat-l-bike-summit<\/a><br \/>\n***********************************************************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Just to note the state (MDOT) built up nearly $40,000,000 in unspent federal funds that could have been used for biking and walking projects. Not having to go through the state might just be a good thing. Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ta-clearinghouse.info\/state_profile?state_id=23\">https:\/\/www.ta-clearinghouse.info\/state_profile?state_id=23<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nNote in the chart referenced above the legend is incorrect, Brown=Available and Green=Obligated.   oldId.20130307180924565<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ron Cassie, Baltimore magazine &#8230; However, Cardin, with Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, \u201csaved\u201d the legislation with an amendment that provided local governments direct access to most federal transportation funding \u2014 rather than being required to go through various state DOT\u2019s \u2014 enabling them to build sidewalks and bike lanes, for example, to encourage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258142164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sen. Cardin Embraced at Nat\u2019l Bike Summit&#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-258142164","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\/258142164","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=258142164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258142164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258142164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258142164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258142164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}