{"id":89530115,"date":"2007-11-03T05:28:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T05:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=89530115"},"modified":"2007-11-03T05:28:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T05:28:35","slug":"baltimore-looking-to-trim-bike-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=89530115","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore looking to trim bike funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least it goes to transit.<\/p>\n<p>The regional transportation plan draft currently budgets $2 billion for transit and $6.2 billion for highway projects. <\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s amendment proposes equalizing funding for transit and road projects, calling for: <\/p>\n<p>$3 billion for a regional rapid transit system,<br \/>\n$550 million for a new passenger rail tunnel between Penn Station and West Baltimore,<br \/>\n$488 million for improvements to the MARC Penn Line,<br \/>\nand $200 million for improvements to the MARC Camden Line, all totaling $4.3 billion.<br \/>\nThe amendment also proposes scaling back to $3.9 billion for highway projects and $61.8 million for bicycle and pedestrian projects.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/washcycle.typepad.com\/home\/2007\/09\/baltimore-looki.html\">https:\/\/washcycle.typepad.com\/home\/2007\/09\/baltimore-looki.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/stories\/2007\/08\/27\/daily5.html\">https:\/\/washington.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/stories\/2007\/08\/27\/daily5.html<\/a>oldId.20071103052835195<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least it goes to transit. The regional transportation plan draft currently budgets $2 billion for transit and $6.2 billion for highway projects. The group&#8217;s amendment proposes equalizing funding for transit and road projects, calling for: $3 billion for a regional rapid transit system, $550 million for a new passenger rail tunnel between Penn Station &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=89530115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baltimore looking to trim bike funding&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89530115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89530115","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=89530115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89530115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89530115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89530115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89530115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}