{"id":299376160,"date":"2014-06-28T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=299376160"},"modified":"2014-06-28T00:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:02:40","slug":"amtrak-to-welcome-bicycling-passengers-by-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=299376160","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak to welcome bicycling passengers by end of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Schmitz \/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br \/>\nAmtrak said it will begin to introduce new baggage cars equipped with bicycle racks on all of its long-distance trains, including the Capitol Limited serving Pittsburgh, by the end of the year.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a service and amenity that we want to make sure we can offer,\u201d Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz said Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019\u200ds great to have Amtrak understanding how important the bike tourism industry is,\u201d said Linda Boxx, board member and former president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, who has worked for years to persuade Amtrak to provide better accommodations for bikes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/transportation\/2014\/06\/25\/Amtrak-to-welcome-bicycling-passengers-by-end-of-the-year\/stories\/201406250033\">https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/transportation\/2014\/06\/25\/Amtrak-to-welcome-bicycling-passengers-by-end-of-the-year\/stories\/201406250033<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Schmitz \/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Amtrak said it will begin to introduce new baggage cars equipped with bicycle racks on all of its long-distance trains, including the Capitol Limited serving Pittsburgh, by the end of the year. \u201cThis is a service and amenity that we want to make sure we can offer,\u201d Amtrak spokesman &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=299376160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amtrak to welcome bicycling passengers by end of the year&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299376160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299376160","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=299376160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299376160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299376160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299376160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299376160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}