{"id":51681855,"date":"2006-08-22T04:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=51681855"},"modified":"2006-08-22T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T04:04:15","slug":"bicycles-have-too-much-clout-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=51681855","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles have too much clout in San Francisco?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle<br \/>\nRachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer &#8211; [a brief excerpt]<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"116\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/20060822040415118_1.gif\" alt=\"\">The 2000 U.S. Census found that about 2 percent of the commuters in San Francisco pedal to work or school. City Hall set a goal to push that to 10 percent by 2010.<br \/>\nAdvocates say that can&#8217;t be done without the completion of a citywide bicycle network that likely would mean less room on the city&#8217;s streets to drive and park cars &#8212; a prospect that adds fuel to the tension in the city between motorists and bicyclists.<br \/>\nRob Anderson is fed up. An active blogger, he sued the city to stop implementation of the bike plan. Anderson started a group &#8212; he won&#8217;t say how many members it has, but by all accounts there aren&#8217;t many &#8212; called &quot;Ninety-Nine Percent.&#8221; The name is intended to highlight the fact that only a sliver of residents rely on bicycles and that the vast majority still drive, use public transit and walk.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2006\/08\/21\/MNGP1KM9G01.DTL\">https:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2006\/08\/21\/MNGP1KM9G01.DTL<\/a>oldId.20060822040415118<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer &#8211; [a brief excerpt] The 2000 U.S. Census found that about 2 percent of the commuters in San Francisco pedal to work or school. City Hall set a goal to push that to 10 percent by 2010. Advocates say that can&#8217;t be done without the completion of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=51681855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycles have too much clout in San Francisco?&#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-51681855","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\/51681855","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=51681855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51681855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51681855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51681855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51681855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}