{"id":81990035,"date":"2007-08-07T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=81990035"},"modified":"2007-08-07T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T23:00:35","slug":"may-we-have-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=81990035","title":{"rendered":"May we have some more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregonian<br \/>\nWhen Portland unveiled, with great fanfare, the Eastbank Esplanade in 2001, we took the opportunity to comment upon its cost: $419 per inch. Our prose ranged from the snide to the snarky, tones, if we may say so ourselves, in which we are rather well-versed.<br \/>\nNow, as the city gears up to spend yet another small fortune on yet another of these touchy-feely trails &#8212; this time along Sullivan&#8217;s Gulch &#8212; we&#8217;d like to revisit the issue and restate our position.<br \/>\nWe were wrong.<br \/>\nWith a nod to Oliver Twist, we&#8217;d even like to add this: &quot;Please, sir, may we have some more?&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThat $419-per-inch investment &#8212; more than $30 million &#8212; that we made on the Eastbank Esplanade was the catalyst for much of the redevelopment of Portland&#8217;s inner east side. The next series of trails promises similar jolts of economic energy to neighborhoods too long left feeling disconnected from the city&#8217;s core. Amsterdam spends about $36 per citizen a year on its bicycle\/pedestrian infrastructure. Portland spends about $2 a person, per year. We have, in other words, only just begun.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/editorials\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/editorial\/118618171487980.xml&amp;coll=7\">https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/editorials\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/editorial\/118618171487980.xml&amp;coll=7<\/a>oldId.20070807230035985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregonian When Portland unveiled, with great fanfare, the Eastbank Esplanade in 2001, we took the opportunity to comment upon its cost: $419 per inch. Our prose ranged from the snide to the snarky, tones, if we may say so ourselves, in which we are rather well-versed. Now, as the city gears up to spend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=81990035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May we have some more?&#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-81990035","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\/81990035","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=81990035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81990035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81990035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81990035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}