{"id":559,"date":"2009-08-10T02:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T07:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-08-10T02:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T07:27:56","slug":"while-madison-rests-on-its-cycling-laurels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/while-madison-rests-on-its-cycling-laurels\/","title":{"rendered":"While Madison Rests on its Cycling Laurels&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ivey recently wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=\/tct\/2009\/07\/22\/0907220047.php\">a lengthy article on the state of bicycling and bike infrastructure in Madison<\/a>. Though fairly milquetoast in the arc of the narrative, he did get some good blasts in there from John Burke (Trek Bicycles head honcho) and yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>He omitted some key numbers I gave him, using only those which kind of soft-pedaled the mayor&#8217;s paving proclivities. So I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/opinion\/letters\/460397\">a letter to the editor to drive home the point that Mayor Pave&#8217;s highway expansions&#8211;built for speed&#8211;are detrimental to cycling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ivey&#8217;s impetus for the article was <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/dept\/press\/o-p\/PedalingRev.html\">Pedaling Revolution<\/a>, which highlighted Madison. (My review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=114\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison&#8217;s bike infrastructure: Resting on our Laurels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,42,9,5,20,56,12,11,8,13,4,1],"tags":[95,17,319,310,43,1320,317,55,7,119,113,112,320,1319,99,318,51],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicyclebicyclingbicyclist","category-creative-business","category-dane-county-politics","category-energy-efficient-places","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-health","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-dont-suck","category-places-that-suck","category-politics","category-society","category-uncategorized","tag-auto-centric","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycle-friendly","tag-capital-times","tag-dane-county","tag-environment","tag-john-burke","tag-madison","tag-madison-wisconsin-politics","tag-mike-ivey","tag-oregon-state-university-press","tag-pedaling-revolution","tag-resting-on-laurels","tag-society","tag-superhighway-stalinism","tag-trek-bicycles","tag-urban-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}