{"id":313412328,"date":"2014-12-07T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T10:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313412328"},"modified":"2014-12-07T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T10:58:48","slug":"cycling-is-creating-more-jobs-in-europe-than-automakers-are-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313412328","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Is Creating More Jobs in Europe Than Automakers Are in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Taylor Hill,  Takepart<br \/>\nWant to lower greenhouse gas emissions, get fit, and create new jobs? Ride a bike.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the finding of the first comprehensive study on Europe\u2019s cycling industry , which details a cycling economy that employs more than 655,000 people in industries such as retail, manufacturing, infrastructure investment, and tourism.<br \/>\nOn just two wheels, the industry is creating more jobs than Europe\u2019s high-fashion footwear industry (388,000 jobs), its well-established steel sector (410,000), and the United States\u2019 Big Three automobile companies (Ford , General Motors , and Chrysler ) combined (510,000).<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2014\/12\/03\/not-just-health-and-fitness-cycling-has-created-650000-jobs-europe\">https:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2014\/12\/03\/not-just-health-and-fitness-cycling-has-created-650000-jobs-europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taylor Hill, Takepart Want to lower greenhouse gas emissions, get fit, and create new jobs? Ride a bike. That\u2019s the finding of the first comprehensive study on Europe\u2019s cycling industry , which details a cycling economy that employs more than 655,000 people in industries such as retail, manufacturing, infrastructure investment, and tourism. On just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=313412328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycling Is Creating More Jobs in Europe Than Automakers Are in the U.S.&#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-313412328","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\/313412328","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=313412328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313412328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313412328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313412328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313412328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}