{"id":263300484,"date":"2013-05-06T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263300484"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:01:24","slug":"heres-what-americans-dont-get-about-cycling-and-why-its-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263300484","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What Americans Don&#8217;t Get About Cycling \u2014 And Why It&#8217;s A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I found the argument against employers providing showers very provocative.]<br \/>\n*************************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Alex Davies, Business Insider<br \/>\nThe 2013 Copenhagenize Index of the world&#8217;s most bike-friendly cities is out, and not a single American metropolis made the top 20.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a problem \u2014 and not just a health-related one, said Mikael Colville-Andersen, CEO of Copenhagenize, the consulting and communications company that published the Index.<br \/>\nBy failing to embrace cycling culture, American cities are losing out on significant financial benefits, Colville-Andersen told Business Insider. Studies show that every kilometer cycled in Denmark earns the country \u20ac.23 (partly because cyclists have been shown to spend more money in local stores), he said.<br \/>\nAnd even with significant taxation of automobiles, every kilometer driven in Denmark costs the country \u20ac.16.<br \/>\nThe problem in the U.S. is all about perception, said Colville-Andersen. Many commuters see cycling as a form of exercise, not convenient transport, and cities are still being built around automobiles.<br \/>\nHow Americans See Cycling<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-americans-dont-get-about-cycling-2013-4\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-americans-dont-get-about-cycling-2013-4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I found the argument against employers providing showers very provocative.] ************************************************************************************* By Alex Davies, Business Insider The 2013 Copenhagenize Index of the world&#8217;s most bike-friendly cities is out, and not a single American metropolis made the top 20. That&#8217;s a problem \u2014 and not just a health-related one, said Mikael Colville-Andersen, CEO of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263300484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here&#8217;s What Americans Don&#8217;t Get About Cycling \u2014 And Why It&#8217;s A Problem&#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-263300484","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\/263300484","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=263300484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263300484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263300484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263300484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263300484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}