{"id":286441073,"date":"2014-01-29T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286441073"},"modified":"2014-01-29T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:57:53","slug":"bike-safety-advocates-push-2-bills-get-frosty-reception-in-maryland-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286441073","title":{"rendered":"Bike safety advocates push 2 bills, get frosty reception in Maryland General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This is way we need to connect with those that represent us.]<br \/>\n*******************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m a little shell-shocked that there are so many bike bills,\u201d said Del. James E. Malone Jr. (D-Baltimore-Howard counties), who chaired the hearing before the House Environmental Matters Committee. \u201cThis year it\u2019s four feet, and next year it\u2019s five feet, and before you know it the cars are on the shoulders and the bikes are on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malone said many cyclists he observes \u201cdon\u2019t pay any attention to the rules of the road.\u201d [Is he including us not riding far right as possible on a lane too narrow to share as State highways asserted? Confusion over what the rules are for cyclists and signaling out cyclists as the sole source scofflaw behavior on our roads are a big problem here.]<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/bike-safety-advocates-push-2-bills-get-frosty-reception-in-maryland-general-assembly\/2014\/01\/28\/81fc1c3c-8861-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/bike-safety-advocates-push-2-bills-get-frosty-reception-in-maryland-general-assembly\/2014\/01\/28\/81fc1c3c-8861-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This is way we need to connect with those that represent us.] ******************************************************************************* By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post &#8230; \u201cI\u2019m a little shell-shocked that there are so many bike bills,\u201d said Del. James E. Malone Jr. (D-Baltimore-Howard counties), who chaired the hearing before the House Environmental Matters Committee. \u201cThis year it\u2019s four &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=286441073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bike safety advocates push 2 bills, get frosty reception in Maryland General Assembly&#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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286441073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286441073","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=286441073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286441073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286441073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286441073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286441073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}