{"id":1098,"date":"2008-08-08T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2008-08-08T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:38:31","slug":"nycs-summer-streets-dc-needs-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/08\/nycs-summer-streets-dc-needs-this\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Summer Streets: DC Needs This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DC is forever trying to claim that it&#8217;s a city on par with NYC.  It isn&#8217;t, of course, but I&#8217;d love to see that ambition (delusion?) fuel a copycat attempt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/summerstreets\/html\/route\/route.shtml\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Summer Streets will take place for three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, &amp; 23) from 7:00 am &#8211; 1:00 pm. The route will connect the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park [,in addition to closing down a continuous route the length of Manhattan] and there will be recommended connections to the Hudson River Greenway, allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.<\/p>\n<p>This event takes a valuable public space &#8211; our City&#8217;s streets &#8211; and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC&#8217;s greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/summerstreets\/html\/route\/route.shtml\">Click for the map<\/a>.  Impressive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/summer-streets\/\">Via Waldo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC is forever trying to claim that it&#8217;s a city on par with NYC. It isn&#8217;t, of course, but I&#8217;d love to see that ambition (delusion?) fuel a copycat attempt at this: Summer Streets will take place for three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, &amp; 23) from 7:00 am &#8211; 1:00 pm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}