{"id":598,"date":"2007-11-20T05:34:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/598"},"modified":"2007-11-20T05:34:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T11:34:19","slug":"d-fw-gears-up-for-more-trails-more-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/20\/d-fw-gears-up-for-more-trails-more-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"D-FW gears up for more trails, more cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from The Dallas Morning News (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-trails_19met.ART.State.Edition1.36f8809.html\" target=\"_blank\">full article link<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><font size=\"-1\"><strong><span class=\"vitstorybyline\">By JOE SIMNACHER  \/  The Dallas Morning News <br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jsimnacher@dallasnews.com\">jsimnacher@dallasnews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/font> <span class=\"vitstorybody\"><\/p>\n<p>Urban planners are looking to enlist more mild-mannered Clark Kent-like bicycle commuters to help battle Dallas-Fort Worth&#8217;s air-pollution and traffic congestion woes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><\/p>\n<p>They want more people to consider bicycle commuting for short distances, either directly to work or to link to mass transit. The enlistees need not be faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than Lance Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have this picture of cycling commuters as being like supermen, and that discourages other people from doing it,&quot; said P.M. Summer, transportation alternatives coordinator for the city of Dallas. &quot;When I came into this job, our thinking was we needed to enable cyclists to make 40-mile bike trips. Now my thinking is we need to have development in place that allows a cyclist to make a one-mile bike trip.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Dallas Morning News (full article link) By JOE SIMNACHER \/ The Dallas Morning News jsimnacher@dallasnews.com Urban planners are looking to enlist more mild-mannered Clark Kent-like bicycle commuters to help battle Dallas-Fort Worth&#8217;s air-pollution and traffic congestion woes. They <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/20\/d-fw-gears-up-for-more-trails-more-cyclists\/\"><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":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-9E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}