{"id":2079,"date":"2010-08-24T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:01:54","slug":"summer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/08\/summer-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">It&#8217;s a cool morning, the first in a long time, and the\u00a0frayed leaves\u00a0are starting\u00a0to look\u00a0less lush, but there&#8217;s still time to think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/summerstreets\/html\/home\/home.shtml\">Summer Streets<\/a>, New York City&#8217;s program to create a temporary 6.9 mile car-free route to encourage bicycling in the city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2080\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/summer-streets.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2080  \" title=\"summer streets\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/summer-streets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/summer-streets.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/summer-streets-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/summer-streets-798x1024.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picnics, pools, and a car-free Park Avenue are part of a flexible way to use the City&#39;s infrastructure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Free bike rentals and repairs, free skate rental, rest stops, maps, and yes&#8211;you can cool off in a dumpster pool!&#8211;remove barriers and excuses.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pr2010\/pr10_029.shtml\">temporarily rethinking the city<\/a>. Trying out parks and bike routes is not only a physical test of infrastructure, but a test of how we function as individuals in our environment. Certain things are hard&#8211;biking, recycling, walking&#8211;not because they are inherently difficult, but because the infrastructure isn&#8217;t set up to support them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">It&#8217;s a cool morning, the first in a long time, and the\u00a0frayed leaves\u00a0are starting\u00a0to look\u00a0less lush, but there&#8217;s still time to think about Summer Streets, New York City&#8217;s program to create a temporary 6.9 mile car-free route to encourage bicycling in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Free bike rentals and repairs, free skate rental, rest stops, maps, and yes&#8211;you can cool off in a dumpster pool!&#8211;remove barriers and excuses.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of temporarily rethinking the city. Trying out parks and bike routes is not only a physical test of infrastructure, but a test of how we function as individuals in our environment. Certain things are hard&#8211;biking, recycling, walking&#8211;not because they are inherently difficult, but because the infrastructure isn&#8217;t set up &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/08\/summer-streets\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,20],"tags":[179,182,183],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-bike-culture","tag-biking","tag-temporary-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}