{"id":232,"date":"2014-11-12T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:31:00","slug":"9-things-drivers-need-to-stop-saying-in-the-bikes-vs-cars-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"9 Things Drivers Need to Stop Saying in the Bikes vs. Cars Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roads are designed for cars?<\/h3>\n

So I looked into it and, as it turns out, roads have been around for many thousands of years. And for much of that time, they\u2019ve carried a wide variety of things: feet, carts, horses, wagons, streetcars, buses, bikes, and automobiles. It\u2019s only in the last six or seven decades that we\u2019ve decided cars should get priority.<\/p>\n

The roads don\u2019t control us, we control them. We can design them to carry whatever types of traffic we feel are useful, and provide for safe and convenient passage of those different modes. But after World War II, many forces in the US\u2014suburban planning, interstate highway development, the movement of the middle-class out of cities\u2014conspired to create a motorist-dominated streetscape.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/9-things-drivers-need-stop-saying-bikes-vs-cars-debate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roads are designed for cars? So I looked into it and, as it turns out, roads have been around for many thousands of years. And for much of that time, they\u2019ve carried a wide variety of things: feet, carts, horses, …<\/p>\n

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