{"id":372858781,"date":"2016-10-25T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=372858781"},"modified":"2016-10-25T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:53:01","slug":"bikers-already-pay-their-fair-share-for-safer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=372858781","title":{"rendered":"Bikers already &#8216;pay their fair share&#8217; for safer streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By RANDY LOBASSO,  Metro<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nA lot can go wrong during that process. Especially during the community feedback portion. Oftentimes, those in favor of bike lanes get backlash over wanting something we allegedly don\u2019t pay for. Therefore, the thinking goes, if cyclists want new lanes, they should be taxed and forced to submit to a city licensing program before we even think about installing safety precautions on city streets&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAmerican taxpayers as a whole paid $1 trillion more to sustain the road network than people who drive paid in gasoline taxes, tolls and other user fees.\u201d And in 2012, $69 billion in highway spending came from Americans\u2019 general tax revenue.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/touch.metro.us\/\/philadelphia\/bikers-already-pay-their-their-fair-share-for-safer-streets\/zsJpji&#8212;tuopMAO62Jm4c\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RANDY LOBASSO, Metro &#8230; A lot can go wrong during that process. Especially during the community feedback portion. Oftentimes, those in favor of bike lanes get backlash over wanting something we allegedly don\u2019t pay for. Therefore, the thinking goes, if cyclists want new lanes, they should be taxed and forced to submit to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=372858781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bikers already &#8216;pay their fair share&#8217; for safer streets&#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-372858781","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\/372858781","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=372858781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372858781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372858781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372858781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372858781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}