{"id":530148,"date":"2010-04-16T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011627439_transportationpolicyandbikeriders.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:20:08","slug":"transportation-policy-and-bike-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530148","title":{"rendered":"Transportation policy and bike riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bicycling and walking not \u2018nonsensical\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cTransportation\u2019s bicycle policy hits potholes\u201d [seattletimes.com, Business, April 14], Republicans argue that the plan to give bicycling and walking the same importance as automobiles in transportation planning is \u201cnonsensical\u201d because 80 percent of freight moves by truck, and it\u2019s unfair because roads are paid for mostly by a gasoline tax.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how Republicans don\u2019t notice the inherent unfairness in their own argument, in that car drivers \u2014 through the gas tax \u2014 are subsidizing trucking, which is responsible for most road wear and maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just so typical of Republican rhetoric: They think it\u2019s fine to massively subsidize industrial and corporate interests, but the idea of funding bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure (which helps to reduce congestion, pollution, maintenance and health costs) is unfair and \u201cnonsensical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Rick Kosterman, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycling and walking not \u2018nonsensical\u2019 In \u201cTransportation\u2019s bicycle policy hits potholes\u201d [seattletimes.com, Business, April 14], Republicans argue that the plan to give bicycling and walking the same importance as automobiles in transportation planning is \u201cnonsensical\u201d because 80 percent of freight moves by truck, and it\u2019s unfair because roads are paid for mostly by a gasoline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}