{"id":5,"date":"2011-11-19T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/newsite\/pedalpower\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2013-04-10T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T21:12:36","slug":"ahomepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/ahomepage\/","title":{"rendered":"ahomepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width:45%; float: left; padding-right: 2%; display: inline;\" class=\"post_column_1\"><p>The bicycle, a humble nineteenth century invention, is challenging the fossil-fuel automobile as the conveyance of the future. It&#8217;s the ideal city machine, light, portable, and cheap. Non-polluting. Good exercise too. Urban dwellers around the world are turning to bikes as the car turns them off.<\/p>\n<p>But with bicycles coming of age as a serious mode of transportation there are a few problems. Bicycles and automobiles have to share the same roads, a recipe for conflict, and many potential cyclists just won&#8217;t ride in the city because they see it as too dangerous. Add in the plague of bike theft and a lot of cyclists are simply leaving their bikes at home.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/6973498?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=c9ff23\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/div> <div style=\"width:50%; float: left; padding-right: 2%; display: inline;\" class=\"post_column_1\"><p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You want to steal my stuff, please. You can&#8217;t do anything with it anyways. I dismantle them. &#8220;<em>Igor Kenk, bike shop operator, Toronto<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The plan was to stop the car, the destruction of the town, the pollution, by leaving cars outside the town, and give a new instrument for people to use when they want to travel around: free bikes, for everybody. &#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Luud Schimmelpennink, social inventor, Amsterdam<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These days the real cycling radical in New York City is the 40-year-old mom whose taking her kids to school on a bike.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Aaron Naparstek, Streetsblog, New York<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If a cyclist gets hit by a motorist, you can pretty much be guaranteed there will be no consequences for the motorist. Normally there&#8217;s not even a summons issued, and there&#8217;s virtually never a severe penalty.<br \/>\n<em>John Pucher, Prof Urban Planning, Rutgers University, New Jersey<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"docs-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cogentbenger.com\/pedalpower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}