{"id":290432347,"date":"2014-03-16T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290432347"},"modified":"2014-03-16T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T11:39:07","slug":"the-pied-piper-for-sustainable-transportation-and-his-radical-idea-put-people-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290432347","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Pied Piper for sustainable transportation\u2019 and his radical idea: Put people first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CHRISTINE MCLAREN, The Globe and Mail<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe has also lived his message: Mr. Penalosa, 57, helped to transform Bogota when he served as the Colombian capital\u2019s commissioner of parks and recreation in the late 1990s. He has since become an evangelist for livable cities that put people, not cars, at the centre of planning. As the executive director of Toronto-based non-profit 8-80 Cities, he has worked with more than 150 cities on every continent, convincing them that rapid improvements to mass transit, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways are not as impossible as they may think.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMany politicians are also \u201ctimid,\u201d he adds. \u201cThe minute they\u2019re elected, they\u2019re thinking about how to get re-elected, and the way to get re-elected is to do more of the same. Maybe a little bit better but more of the same. But unfortunately now we not only have to focus on doing things right, but also we need to focus on doing the right things.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about walking or cycling or parks or sidewalks,\u201d he says. \u201cThose are the means. The end goal is how to create a vibrant city with healthy communities, where the citizens are going to be happier.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/the-pied-piper-for-sustainable-transportation-and-his-radical-idea-put-people-first\/article17496623\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/the-pied-piper-for-sustainable-transportation-and-his-radical-idea-put-people-first\/article17496623\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CHRISTINE MCLAREN, The Globe and Mail &#8230; He has also lived his message: Mr. Penalosa, 57, helped to transform Bogota when he served as the Colombian capital\u2019s commissioner of parks and recreation in the late 1990s. He has since become an evangelist for livable cities that put people, not cars, at the centre of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290432347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u2018The Pied Piper for sustainable transportation\u2019 and his radical idea: Put people first&#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-290432347","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\/290432347","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=290432347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290432347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290432347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290432347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}