{"id":260456668,"date":"2013-04-03T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=260456668"},"modified":"2013-04-03T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:04:28","slug":"69-congressional-leaders-call-for-bike-ped-safety-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=260456668","title":{"rendered":"69 Congressional Leaders Call for Bike\/Ped Safety Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Caron Whitaker, Bike League<\/p>\n<p>Today 69 members of the House of Representatives sent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3.26.13-LaHood-Bike-Ped-Lettr.pdf\">a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood<\/a> asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to set a national goal to reduce bicyclist deaths. The bi-partisan letter, led by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Howard Coble (R-NC), was signed by one-third of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and represents members from 26 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3.26.13-LaHood-Bike-Ped-Lettr.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14221\" alt=\"3.26.13 LaHood Bike-Ped Lettr_Page_1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3.26.13-LaHood-Bike-Ped-Lettr_Page_1-771x1024.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the National Bike Summit this month, advocates met with their representatives and staff, asking them to sign on to the \u2018Dear Colleague\u2019 letter to Secretary LaHood. Sixty-nine of those representatives said yes. <strong>Now that\u2019s what I call a successful Summit Lobby Day! <\/strong>Thank you to everyone who participated in Hill meetings on March 6th \u2014 or tweeted or e-mailed from home. You clearly made a difference. (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/safety-letter-signers-final.xlsx\">Click here<\/a> for a list of all Reps who signed on.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/summit-follow-up-69-congressional-leaders-call-for-bikeped-safety-goal\/\">https:\/\/blog.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/summit-follow-up-69-congressional-leaders-call-for-bikeped-safety-goal\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: And note that Van Hollen was the only MD rep to sign on.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Caron Whitaker, Bike League Today 69 members of the House of Representatives sent&nbsp;a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to set a national goal to reduce bicyclist deaths. The bi-partisan letter, led by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Howard Coble (R-NC), was signed by one-third of the House &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=260456668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;69 Congressional Leaders Call for Bike\/Ped Safety Goal&#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-260456668","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\/260456668","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=260456668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260456668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260456668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260456668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260456668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}