{"id":279828039,"date":"2013-11-13T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=279828039"},"modified":"2013-11-13T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:00:39","slug":"holiday-reader-the-war-on-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=279828039","title":{"rendered":"Holiday reader: The war on bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I say this is a must read, but a few highlights.]<br \/>\n************************************************<br \/>\nby David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington<br \/>\n&quot;Is it okay to kill cyclists?&quot; That&#8217;s the question an op-ed in the New York Times asks. It&#8217;s not, but if a spate of other op-eds are any indication, it&#8217;s sure okay to hate them and the facilities they ask for in a quest for safety.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut studies performed in Arizona, Minnesota and Hawaii suggest that drivers are at fault in more than half of cycling fatalities.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nlegal to kill people, even when it is clearly your fault, as long you&#8217;re driving a car and the victim is on a bike<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nTo a lot of people, though, the problem in our society isn&#8217;t that those who hit and kill cyclists face no consequences; the problem is that those damn cyclists are in the way of driving faster.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nExcept, Caldwell argues, since our transportation system is over capacity, that means we can&#8217;t afford to give up a single square foot of asphalt to cyclists or let them slow down drivers. Never mind that you can move more people in less space when some drive and some bike,<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut, as many have said many times before, if there is a war on cars, why are cyclists the casualties?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/20759\/holiday-reader-the-war-on-bikes\/\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/20759\/holiday-reader-the-war-on-bikes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I say this is a must read, but a few highlights.] ************************************************ by David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington &quot;Is it okay to kill cyclists?&quot; That&#8217;s the question an op-ed in the New York Times asks. It&#8217;s not, but if a spate of other op-eds are any indication, it&#8217;s sure okay to hate them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=279828039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holiday reader: The war on bikes&#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-279828039","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\/279828039","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=279828039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279828039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279828039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279828039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279828039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}