{"id":3971,"date":"2010-05-27T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:27:45","slug":"thank-sec-lahood-dcs-freedom-plaza-on-friday-at-1245p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/05\/27\/thank-sec-lahood-dcs-freedom-plaza-on-friday-at-1245p\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Sec. LaHood: DC&#8217;s Freedom Plaza on Friday at 12:45p"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet up with other area cyclists at 12:45pm on Friday, May 28, in Freedom Plaza (14th and Pennsylvania NW) for a ride to the Department of Transportation to thank Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for his leadership on bicycling and pedestrian issues.<\/p>\n<p>From the press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bicyclists and Pedestrians Recognize US DOT Secretary LaHood\u00c2\u00a0for His Leadership<\/p>\n<p>Transportation advocates to bike thank you letter down Pennsylvania Avenue to USDOT<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will greet bicycle riders outside\u00c2\u00a0USDOT headquarters to accept a thank you letter signed by over 275 organizations nationwide\u00c2\u00a0for the Secretary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership on bicycle and pedestrian issues. LaHood has issued a new\u00c2\u00a0policy to make bicycling and walking safer and more accessible, setting the stage for creating\u00c2\u00a0livable communities that polls show Americans want.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from America Bikes, Safe Routes to School National Partnership and Transportation for\u00c2\u00a0America will bike down the new Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes on their way to USDOT. \u00c2\u00a0At\u00c2\u00a0the press availability, LaHood and representatives from three transportation organizations will\u00c2\u00a0speak and take questions from the media.<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: U.S. Department of Transportation<br \/>\n1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, 20590<br \/>\nIn the Courtyard on 3rd St SE in between M and N Streets SE<\/p>\n<p>WHEN: Friday, May 28, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Bicyclists to arrive down 3rd Street at approximately 1:15 p.m.<br \/>\nPresentation ceremony to take place starting at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>WHO: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood<br \/>\nRandy Neufeld, President, America Bikes<br \/>\nMargo Pedroso, Deputy Director, Safe Routes to School National Partnership<br \/>\nLilly Shoup, Research Director, Transportation for America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet up with other area cyclists at 12:45pm on Friday, May 28, in Freedom Plaza (14th and Pennsylvania NW) for a ride to the Department of Transportation to thank Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for his leadership on bicycling and pedestrian issues. From the press release: Bicyclists and Pedestrians Recognize US DOT Secretary LaHood\u00c2\u00a0for His Leadership [&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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}