{"id":69780300,"date":"2007-03-19T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=69780300"},"modified":"2007-03-19T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T15:25:00","slug":"could-we-bring-a-bicycle-rental-bus-shetlers-to-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=69780300","title":{"rendered":"Could we bring a bicycle rental bus shetlers to Baltimore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/washcycle.typepad.com\/home\/2007\/03\/were_squanderin.html\">WashCycle<\/a> has a post about DC squandering it&#8217;s lead to institute a <a href=\"https:\/\/washcycle.typepad.com\/home\/2006\/01\/smart_bikes.html\">computerized bicycle rental plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of my pet hates about living in Baltimore is the lack of coordination between mass transit systems. Northern VA has the right idea they run a hub and spoke architecture, where the metro  stations are the major hubs and the buses feed out into the neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>\nSince MTA doesn&#8217;t seem to be able to set up a hub and spoke system for Baltimore maybe the city could bypass MTA and drop in a computerized bicycle rental program at key locations hooked up to the swipe cards used on the MTA buses. <\/p>\n<p>\nThis would allow you to jump on the MARC stop at Camden Yards, swipe your Smart Trip Card to get a bike, bike to the ESPN Zone\/Fells Point\/Canton, lock up the bike, then repeat it all again on the way home.  No need to worry about taking a bike on the train during rush hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WashCycle has a post about DC squandering it&#8217;s lead to institute a computerized bicycle rental plan. One of my pet hates about living in Baltimore is the lack of coordination between mass transit systems. Northern VA has the right idea they run a hub and spoke architecture, where the metro stations are the major hubs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=69780300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could we bring a bicycle rental bus shetlers to Baltimore?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69780300","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\/69780300","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69780300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69780300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69780300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69780300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69780300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}