{"id":783,"date":"2008-04-29T19:40:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T01:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-04-29T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T01:40:26","slug":"austin-looks-to-obtain-bike-league-gold-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/austin-looks-to-obtain-bike-league-gold-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin looks to obtain bike league &#8216;gold level&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"The Daily Texan\" href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytexanonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper410\/news\/2008\/04\/29\/TopStories\/Austin.Looks.To.Obtain.Bike.League.gold.Level-3354987.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">from The Daily Texan Online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The city of Austin is hoping to boost its bicycle-friendly level to gold status, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists.<\/p>\n<p>Austin, which climbed to a silver level in 2007, is the only Texas city to receive an award by the league. Austin City Council members approved a resolution Thursday to upgrade the city&#8217;s bicycle network to attain a gold level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are number one, and we don&#8217;t want to be number two,&#8221; said Councilwoman Sheryl Cole.<\/p>\n<p>The League of American Bicyclists determines bicycle-friendly levels by the amount of engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation a community puts into planning its bicycle network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Texan Online The city of Austin is hoping to boost its bicycle-friendly level to gold status, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists. Austin, which climbed to a silver level in 2007, is the only Texas <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/austin-looks-to-obtain-bike-league-gold-level\/\"><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":[50,122],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-league-of-american-bicyclists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}