{"id":2571,"date":"2011-08-12T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:46:23","slug":"london-paris-bethesda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/08\/london-paris-bethesda\/","title":{"rendered":"London, Paris, Bethesda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Gazette reports this week that Shared Bikes Could Come to Bethesda. Cities around the <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2055\">world <\/a>and around the <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?s=bikes\">country <\/a>are finding that\u00a0bike share programs add a new level of livability and possibly contribute to reducing traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2579\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/capital-bikeshare-rider-rack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2579\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2579 \" title=\"capital bikeshare rider-rack\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/capital-bikeshare-rider-rack-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/capital-bikeshare-rider-rack-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/capital-bikeshare-rider-rack-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cycling to Bethesda?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While it could be fun to just bike around\u00a0Bethesda, the proposed\u00a0bike station could be the start of a bike share network throughout the County. Why not pick up a bike in Bethesda and pedal down to Friendship Heights or Silver Spring. I can imagine small fleets of biking scientists pedaling from Bethesda to NIH.<\/p>\n<p>Bike sharing\u00a0could also be the start of thinking about suburban transportation in a broader way. It doesn&#8217;t have to be solely about congestion. Some congestion is inevitable, but even more\u00a0is inevitable if we don&#8217;t think about our individual trips differently, and as a community think about serving walkers, cyclists, and transit riders, as well as drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Department&#8217;s forthcoming Mobility Access Report recognizes the need to move beyond measuring auto congestion and takes an initial step with a bicycle &#8220;heat&#8221; map that estimates where people might want to go on their bikes, whether it&#8217;s commuting or recreation.\u00a0The report\u00a0will also propose ways to gather data about bike use that will contribute to understanding how get around now and how we could in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Gazette reports this week that Shared Bikes Could Come to Bethesda. Cities around the world and around the country are finding that\u00a0bike share programs add a new level of livability and possibly contribute to reducing traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>While it could be fun to just bike around\u00a0Bethesda, the proposed\u00a0bike station could be the start of a bike share network throughout the County. Why not pick up a bike in Bethesda and pedal down to Friendship Heights or Silver Spring. I can imagine small fleets of biking scientists pedaling from Bethesda to NIH.<\/p>\n<p>Bike sharing\u00a0could also be the start of thinking about suburban transportation in a broader way. It doesn&#8217;t have to be solely about congestion. Some congestion is inevitable, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/08\/london-paris-bethesda\/\" 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":[5],"tags":[264,178,283,284],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","tag-bicycles","tag-bike-routes","tag-bikeshare","tag-mobility-access-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}