{"id":1039,"date":"2010-05-19T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2011-11-12T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T19:51:37","slug":"bike-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/bike-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1133\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/bike-to-the-future\/img_3059\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1133\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2010\/bike-to-the-future\/img_3059\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1133\" title=\"Bike Week\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3059-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bike Week\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3059-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_3059-515x386.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>These days, I spend most of my time at a desk, pecking away at my keyboard, talking on the phone, and sitting in meetings. \u00a0But twice a day, I get to be free, riding through the streets of Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side and the industrial corridors of Brooklyn.\u00a0 And, to boot, when I commute, I save time \u2013 it\u2019s actually quicker than the subway.<\/p>\n<p>When I moved to NYC in the \u201980s, I biked quite a bit \u2013 my favorite ride was out to Fire Island at the crack of dawn, before the beach traffic kicked in.\u00a0 I also liked riding in the city, especially up to Central Park, though a cab hit me once and snapped my bike frame in two.\u00a0 Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franksbikes.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Frank\u2019s<\/a>, my local bike shop was able to replace the frame and it\u2019s served me well ever since.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there\u2019s been a biking revolution in NYC \u2013 thanks to the work of the bicycling advocacy group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transalt.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Transportation Alternatives<\/a>, and the visionary Transportation Commissioner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/about\/commbio.shtml\" target=\"_self\">Janette Sadik-Khan<\/a>. \u00a0Bike lanes have cropped up throughout the city, across the Manhattan to Brooklyn bridges and on many streets, making commuting by bike a bit safer.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of debate about \u201csharing the road.\u201d\u00a0 With a limited amount of public pavement, we need to decide how to allocate this resource between pedestrians, cyclists, cars and buses. \u00a0The car has been the king for many years, but now people are wondering if we\u2019ve got it right.<\/p>\n<p>So get out this Friday, ride your bike and show your support for cycling &#8211;\u00a0 May 21st is National Bike to Work Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Dave Bolotsky gives us a biker&#8217;s-eye-view of NYC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[46,44,30,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}