{"id":77747406,"date":"2007-06-19T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77747406"},"modified":"2007-06-19T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:30:06","slug":"the-future-of-carbon-free-transport-groningen-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77747406","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Carbon-Free Transport: Groningen, Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Warren Karlenzig<br \/>\nThe future of carbon-free transport lives strong in Groningen. This Dutch city of 185,000 proves that bicycle transportation can reign supreme: people there make about 150,000 trips by bicycle every day.<br \/>\nBicycles and pedestrians entirely rule the medieval-era city hub, cruising along on car-free dedicated pathways and short cuts with no traffic signals in some instances. But people also commute on bikes in large numbers from suburban housing spread out around the city to downtown jobs, via a ring-and-spoke network of paths. Overall, 37 percent of area commutes are made on bikes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOther so-called northern European &quot;cycling cities&quot; may be more known (Amsterdam; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Ghent, Belgium) but none can match Groningen for its complete vision and high rate of daily velocipedic<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006824.html\">https:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006824.html<\/a>oldId.20070619203006260<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Warren Karlenzig The future of carbon-free transport lives strong in Groningen. This Dutch city of 185,000 proves that bicycle transportation can reign supreme: people there make about 150,000 trips by bicycle every day. Bicycles and pedestrians entirely rule the medieval-era city hub, cruising along on car-free dedicated pathways and short cuts with no traffic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=77747406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Future of Carbon-Free Transport: Groningen, Netherlands&#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-77747406","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\/77747406","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=77747406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77747406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77747406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77747406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77747406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}