{"id":316801028,"date":"2015-01-15T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316801028"},"modified":"2015-01-15T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:17:08","slug":"city-hatches-plan-to-raise-private-money-for-free-bikes-for-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316801028","title":{"rendered":"City hatches plan to raise private money for free bikes for school kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Reutter, Baltimore Brew<\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Department of Transportation is requesting over $50,000, mostly for a consultant, to help it raise private funds to provide free bicycles to K-8 school children.<\/p>\n<p>An allocation of $45,818 is set to be awarded to McCormick Taylor, a Philadelphia-based consultant, with an additional $6,874 for in-house administrative costs, according to the request before tomorrow\u2019s Board of Estimates meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The expenses will go toward the agency\u2019s so-far-unpublicized effort to give away bikes to children to stimulate \u201cawareness and enthusiasm\u201d for cycling in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2015\/01\/13\/city-hatches-plan-to-raise-private-money-for-free-bikes-for-school-kids\/\">https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2015\/01\/13\/city-hatches-plan-to-raise-private-money-for-free-bikes-for-school-kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Reutter, Baltimore Brew The Baltimore Department of Transportation is requesting over $50,000, mostly for a consultant, to help it raise private funds to provide free bicycles to K-8 school children. An allocation of $45,818 is set to be awarded to McCormick Taylor, a Philadelphia-based consultant, with an additional $6,874 for in-house administrative costs, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316801028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City hatches plan to raise private money for free bikes for school kids&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316801028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316801028","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=316801028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316801028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316801028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316801028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316801028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}