{"id":290540565,"date":"2014-03-17T17:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290540565"},"modified":"2014-03-17T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:42:45","slug":"an-advocates-guide-to-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290540565","title":{"rendered":"An Advocate\u2019s Guide to Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: A sample of what I would love to see around here.<br \/>\n***********************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Darren Flusche, Policy Director, League of American Bicyclists<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBike Delaware<br \/>\nIn 2010, Bike Delaware surveyed all candidates running for the state\u2019s General Assembly. The survey included questions related to the appreciation of the benefits of bicycling and ended with direct questions about the candidates\u2019 willingness to dedicate state funds to bicycling and walking. The responses indicated widespread support for dedicated state funding for bicycling and walking.<br \/>\nEncouraged by this, Bike Delaware and their health partners launched the successful \u201cWalkable, Bikeable Delaware\u201d campaign. The governor and the General Assembly have since committed over $20 million dollars of state funds to bicycling and walking projects.<br \/>\nBike Delaware published the results online:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikede.org\/2010\/10\/26\/results-of-2010-survey-of-delaware-general-assembly-candidates\/\">https:\/\/www.bikede.org\/2010\/10\/26\/results-of-2010-survey-of-delaware-general-assembly-candidates\/<\/a><br \/>\n2010 Bike Delaware Survey<br \/>\nOn a scale of 1 to 5, rank your support of the following statements, with one being \u2018strongly agree\u2019 and five being \u2018strongly disagree\u2019:<br \/>\n1. I supported or agreed with the recently passed \u201cVulnerable Users Bill\u201d:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/legis.delaware.gov\/LIS\/lis145.nsf\/vwLegislation\/SB+269\/\">https:\/\/legis.delaware.gov\/LIS\/lis145.nsf\/vwLegislation\/SB+269\/<\/a>$file\/legis.html<br \/>\n2. I believe that increased use of \u2018active\u2019 modes of transportation (i.e. walking and bicycling) improves public health.<br \/>\n3. I believe that investing in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure saves people money by allowing them to spend a smaller percentage of their household budgets on transportation; and makes Delaware\u2019s economy less vulnerable to disruption from oil price shocks.<br \/>\n4. I support greater state transportation spending on walking and bicycling.<br \/>\n5. A minimum percentage of state transportation funding should be dedicated to the development of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and facilities.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocacyadvance.org\/site_images\/content\/Election_Guide_Final\">https:\/\/www.advocacyadvance.org\/site_images\/content\/Election_Guide_Final<\/a>(web2).pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: A sample of what I would love to see around here. *********************************************************************** By Darren Flusche, Policy Director, League of American Bicyclists &#8230; Bike Delaware In 2010, Bike Delaware surveyed all candidates running for the state\u2019s General Assembly. The survey included questions related to the appreciation of the benefits of bicycling and ended with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=290540565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Advocate\u2019s Guide to Elections&#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-290540565","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\/290540565","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=290540565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290540565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290540565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290540565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290540565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}