{"id":575763,"date":"2010-05-21T17:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011924615_nationalbiketoworkday.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:42:52","slug":"national-bike-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575763","title":{"rendered":"National Bike to Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bike summit needed to save lives, livelihood of trails<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>Friday was Bike to Work Day. [Bike to work with care: key danger zones,\u201d page one, May 21.]<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday as I was doing just that, I saw my life flash in front of me. I was on the Burke-Gilman Trail just past the bumpy part (in Lake Forest Park) when I spied a huddle of spandex on bikes heading toward me.<\/p>\n<p>As I got closer, the spandex decided to pass another rider. Suddenly, I was faced with three bicyclists riding abreast; the choice of a head-on collision or the ditch to my right was all I had.<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes. I made it, but spent the rest of my ride muttering to myself about why we couldn\u2019t be more like the Europeans, who do not mix training for the Tour de France with commuting to work.<\/p>\n<p>I love the Burke-Gilman Trail. It\u2019s a gem in our community and I appreciate that it is multipurpose. But everyone who has ridden it has a story of seeing some older couple leap off the trail as a snaking line of racers zooms by or hearing the sometimes aggressive, \u201con your right\u201d directed at a young child trying to learn to ride.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what the solution is \u2014 we don\u2019t want bike cops or big regulatory signs. Education seems to be preaching to the choir. There aren\u2019t enough trails around.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow we need to figure out how to coexist on our bike trails. We need a bike summit with smart people representing different interests all at the table.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Barbara McGrath, Kirkland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike summit needed to save lives, livelihood of trails Editor, The Times: Friday was Bike to Work Day. [Bike to work with care: key danger zones,\u201d page one, May 21.] Last Friday as I was doing just that, I saw my life flash in front of me. I was on the Burke-Gilman Trail just past [&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-575763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575763","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=575763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}