{"id":278097379,"date":"2013-10-24T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=278097379"},"modified":"2013-10-24T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:16:19","slug":"four-ways-protected-bike-lanes-benefit-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=278097379","title":{"rendered":"FOUR WAYS PROTECTED BIKE LANES BENEFIT BUSINESSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Sept. 19th StreetsBlog article, &quot;The question isn&#8217;t whether your city can afford to build high-quality bike infrastructure anymore, say our friends at the Green Lane Project. It&#8217;s whether your city can afford not to. The Green Lane Project has been working with the Alliance for Biking and Walking on a study examining the different ways protected bike lanes help local businesses. Blogger Michael Andersen classifies the economic benefits into four basic categories:<br \/>\nProtected bike lanes increase retail visibility and volume&#8230;<br \/>\nProtected bike lanes make workers healthier and more productive&#8230;<br \/>\nProtected bike lanes make real estate more desirable&#8230;<br \/>\nProtected bike lanes help companies score talented workers&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/19CZEkx\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/19CZEkx<\/a><br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &amp; Walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&gt; According to a Sept. 19th StreetsBlog article, &quot;The question isn&#8217;t whether your city can afford to build high-quality bike infrastructure anymore, say our friends at the Green Lane Project. It&#8217;s whether your city can afford not to. The Green Lane Project has been working with the Alliance for Biking and Walking on a study &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=278097379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOUR WAYS PROTECTED BIKE LANES BENEFIT BUSINESSES&#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-278097379","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\/278097379","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=278097379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278097379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278097379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278097379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278097379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}