{"id":698,"date":"2008-02-13T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/698"},"modified":"2008-02-13T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T01:02:38","slug":"bikes-on-sidewalks-el-paso-considers-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/bikes-on-sidewalks-el-paso-considers-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes on Sidewalks, El Paso Considers a Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from newspapertree.com (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newspapertree.com\/politics\/2087-city-scorecard-2-12-08-bikes-on-sidewalks\" target=\"_blank\">full article link<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso City Council on Tuesday morning discussed the possibility of rescinding a 61-year-old ordinance to give bicyclists more options on where they can pedal.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Susie Byrd called for discussion on the ordinance, which was passed in 1947 and makes it illegal to ride a bicycle on a sidewalk, to be abolished. She said she was acting in response to a call from a constituent who she said claimed his son had received a ticket from an El Paso Police Officer for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from newspapertree.com (full article link) The El Paso City Council on Tuesday morning discussed the possibility of rescinding a 61-year-old ordinance to give bicyclists more options on where they can pedal. Rep. Susie Byrd called for discussion on the ordinance, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/bikes-on-sidewalks-el-paso-considers-a-change\/\"><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-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}