{"id":867,"date":"2008-06-21T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-06-21T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T03:56:08","slug":"houston-bicyclists-battle-for-right-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/houston-bicyclists-battle-for-right-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Bicyclists Battle for Right-Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Houston Community newspaper The Sun<\/p>\n<p>By VAL CLIFTON<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many motorists don&rsquo;t think bicycles belong in the roadway,&rdquo; Wang said. &ldquo;You have to put up with a certain amount of discrimination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Outside Houston city limits, Harris County has &ldquo;no interest&rdquo; in building facilities for bicyclists on roads or streets, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of the precincts have some very nice trails, but none that are on road that actually serve destinations like schools, businesses or retail,&rdquo; Wang said. &ldquo;They are recreational in nature. No one lives on a trail or buys groceries on a trial, so they aren&rsquo;t usable for transportation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcnonline.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=19792007&amp;BRD=1574&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=635447&amp;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Link to the rest of the story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Houston Community newspaper The Sun By VAL CLIFTON &ldquo;Many motorists don&rsquo;t think bicycles belong in the roadway,&rdquo; Wang said. &ldquo;You have to put up with a certain amount of discrimination.&rdquo; Outside Houston city limits, Harris County has &ldquo;no <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/houston-bicyclists-battle-for-right-away\/\"><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":[259,260,51],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-safety","tag-harris-county-texas","tag-houston-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}