{"id":1671,"date":"2009-01-21T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2009-01-21T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:02:44","slug":"biketexas-shifting-gears-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/biketexas-shifting-gears-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"BikeTexas&#8217; Shifting Gears Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a title=\"http:\/\/austinbikeblog.org\" href=\"http:\/\/austinbikeblog.org\/2009\/01\/21\/shifting-gears-luncheon-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>austinbikeblog.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Building more roads to fix traffic is like throwing gas on fire.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Parking is not a constitutional right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If an 8 year old can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t safely use a bikeway, then it is not a good bikeway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BikeTexas<\/a> (formerly Texas Bicycle Coalition) hosted a lunch time lecture by Dr.\u00c2\u00a0Enrique Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa, the former mayor of\u00c2\u00a0Bogot\u00c3\u00a1, Columbia with State Senator Wendy Davis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisforaustin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">council candidate Chris Riley<\/a>, staff from the City, TxDOT, Capital Metro, and CAMPO, and a who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who of Austin bike activists as well as notorious road warrior Bob Skaggs in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from austinbikeblog.org \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Building more roads to fix traffic is like throwing gas on fire.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Parking is not a constitutional right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If an 8 year old can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t safely use a bikeway, then it is not a good bikeway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Today, BikeTexas (formerly <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/biketexas-shifting-gears-luncheon\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[517,129],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-biketexas","tag-txdot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-qX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}