{"id":4836,"date":"2015-11-02T22:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:01:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:01:03","slug":"bike-lane-coming-to-honeywell-street-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2015\/11\/02\/bike-lane-coming-to-honeywell-street-bridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Bike Lane Coming to Honeywell Street Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4837\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4837\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC04097_001.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bike Lane Coming to Honeywell Street Bridge\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike Lane Coming to Honeywell Street Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looks like the sidewalk\u00a0will be trimmed on both sides and the vehicular traffic lanes left almost at their current widths.<\/p>\n<p>I have\u00a0said since I moved here in 1990 and got plowed down by a pizza delivery guy illegally biking on a sidewalk, before biking became a lobbying cult: You could not pay me enough money to risk my life biking\u00a0in this town.<\/p>\n<p>A bicyclist on a highway (such as the nearby Northern Boulevard) is like a toothpick on a\u00a0tidal wave, dangerously and delusionally gliding among creatures hundreds of times their size\u00a0under the debatable notion\u00a0that they are sacrificing their bodies in the interest of\u00a0&#8220;calming traffic&#8221; or (worse) the utterly indefensible notion that they are &#8220;saving the planet&#8221;.\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will never ride a bike in this town because of the\u00a0hipsterly and Bloombergian propaganda associations.<\/p>\n<p>I might buy a pair of Heelys, though. Or a skateboard.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the sidewalk\u00a0will be trimmed on both sides and the vehicular traffic lanes left almost at their current widths. I have\u00a0said since I moved here in 1990 and got plowed down by a pizza delivery guy illegally biking on a sidewalk, before biking became a lobbying cult: You could not pay me enough money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[99,121,265,315,438],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","category-aslic","tag-bike-lanes","tag-bullshit","tag-honeywell-street","tag-lic","tag-queens","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC04097_001-1024x768-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1g0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}