{"id":78871104,"date":"2007-07-02T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=78871104"},"modified":"2007-07-02T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T20:38:24","slug":"walkers-and-cyclists-clash-on-minuteman-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=78871104","title":{"rendered":"Walkers and cyclists clash on Minuteman path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Viser, Globe Staff  |  July 1, 2007<br \/>\nLEXINGTON&#8211; Frank Corsino walks nimbly, a cane in his left hand, a transistor radio in his right. He wears a driving cap and a wide grin, and for years along the peaceful, tree-lined Minuteman Bikeway, the 84-year-old man found solace after his wife and former walking partner died.<br \/>\nBut these days it is a different story. Instead of the spirit-restoring stroll he used to enjoy, he finds himself going into combat mode, dodging torrents of joggers, cyclists, stroller-pushers, dog-walkers, and roller bladers who have flocked to the 11-mile trail in mind-boggling numbers.<br \/>\nCommunity leaders who oversee the trail say its popularity is higher now than in any of the 14 years it&#8217;s been open, and the Washington-based Rails-to-Trails Conservancy estimates that there are 2 million annual users, making it the second-busiest trail of its kind in the country.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe committees also have stuck to a philosophy of ensuring the Minuteman is accessible to all; they&#8217;d rather it be crowded than exclusionary, officials say. They have only one hard-and-fast rule, that there can be no motorized vehicles, unless it&#8217;s a wheelchair.<br \/>\n&quot;Basically, stay to the right and be happy,&quot; said Jack Johnson, chairman of the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee. &quot;If you don&#8217;t like it, go find another path. It wasn&#8217;t designed for one person or one type of person. It was designed as a multi use system.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2007\/07\/01\/rage_on_the_bikeway\/?page=1\">https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2007\/07\/01\/rage_on_the_bikeway\/?page=1<\/a>oldId.20070702203824324<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Viser, Globe Staff | July 1, 2007 LEXINGTON&#8211; Frank Corsino walks nimbly, a cane in his left hand, a transistor radio in his right. He wears a driving cap and a wide grin, and for years along the peaceful, tree-lined Minuteman Bikeway, the 84-year-old man found solace after his wife and former walking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=78871104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walkers and cyclists clash on Minuteman path&#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-78871104","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\/78871104","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=78871104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78871104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78871104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78871104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78871104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}