{"id":28874,"date":"2010-03-13T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28874"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:13:38","slug":"sydney-the-city-that-hates-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28874","title":{"rendered":"Sydney: the city that hates bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sydney is one of the developed world&#8217;s most hostile cities for cycling, according to a US academic who spent a sabbatical year researching ways to boost bike-riding levels in the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8221;I did not cycle that often because I almost got killed several times &#8211; people cutting me off, squeezing me off the road and not stopping,&#8221; John Pucher said of his efforts to ride to Sydney University from his Stanmore home\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/sydney-the-city-that-hates-bikes-20100312-q45h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney is one of the developed world&#8217;s most hostile cities for cycling, according to a US academic who spent a sabbatical year researching ways to boost bike-riding levels in the city. &#8221;I did not cycle that often because I almost got killed several times &#8211; people cutting me off, squeezing me off the road and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28887,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28874\/revisions\/28887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}