{"id":53548526,"date":"2006-09-12T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=53548526"},"modified":"2006-09-12T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T18:35:26","slug":"bicyclists-winning-a-war-of-lanes-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=53548526","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclists winning a war of lanes in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"78\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/20060912183526523_1.jpg\" alt=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIf more lanes were available, 33 percent said they would commute by bike more often, the study found. When bike lanes were added to Valencia Street &#8211; a key corridor for bikers cutting through town- bike riding there went up 144 percent in the first year, Ms. Shahum says.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;Ten years ago I was working too hard and started riding my bike to the office on weekends to get exercise,&quot; says Jean Fraser, a married mother of two and CEO of San Francisco Health Plan. &quot;I found it was cheaper, faster, and more fun than driving or riding the bus.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Commuting this way saves her $250 a month in parking fees and $2,000 a year on gas, Ms. Fraser says.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Complete article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/0912\/p01s01-ussc.html?s=u\">https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/0912\/p01s01-ussc.html?s=u<\/a>oldId.20060912183526523<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor SAN FRANCISCO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53548526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-critical-mass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53548526","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=53548526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53548526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53548526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53548526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53548526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}