{"id":806,"date":"2009-10-03T00:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T05:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2009-10-03T00:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T05:38:35","slug":"olympic-dreams-dashed-but-cyclocross-to-come-to-olin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/olympic-dreams-dashed-but-cyclocross-to-come-to-olin-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Dreams Dashed, but Cyclocross to Come to Olin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose it is good to see local business leaders <\/a>finally<\/a><\/em> recognize the economic power of bicycling. But to see Kathleen Falk and Mayor Pave hogging the limelight on the Olympic bid <\/a>was, well, quite disgusting given that both have done a lot to destroy all that makes biking great around here: Mayor Pave<\/a> doesn’t have the first clue about designing a city for bikes; Falk <\/a>rubber-stamps of all that ticky-tacky sprawl development devouring Dane County’s best cycling landscapes\u00a0plus<\/em> the super-sized highways to serve them.<\/p>\n

Separately….<\/p>\n

This just in…..<\/p>\n

UrbanThoreau.com exclusive from the first article linked above re:<\/p>\n

But Madison officials said Friday they are already working to bring other big biking events to the area, with Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz promising news soon about a “very exciting bicycling event.” The mayor’s office declined to provide additional detail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It will be a fancy-pants cyclocross event. Likely held at Olin Park. Replete with Belgian beer, no doubt.<\/p>\n

You heard it here first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor Pave & Konkrete Kathy greenwash their anti-bicycle policies during the Olympic bid. Separately, I’m predicting a major cyclocross event will soon be announced.<\/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":[15,42,5,20,12,452],"tags":[95,17,43,1320,21,184,29,99,51,28],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicyclebicyclingbicyclist","category-dane-county-politics","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-auto-centric","tag-bicycle","tag-dane-county","tag-environment","tag-greenwash","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-mayor-pave","tag-superhighway-stalinism","tag-urban-geography","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}