{"id":7519,"date":"2013-12-19T22:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?page_id=7519"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:11:49","slug":"andy-thornley-san-francisco-bicycling-groundbreaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/andy-thornley-san-francisco-bicycling-groundbreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Thornley &#8211; San Francisco Bicycling Groundbreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: small;\"><b>Andy Thornley,<\/b>\u00a0former\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbike.org\/\">SFBC<\/a>\u00a0Program Director, formerly of Boston, a qualified and knowledgeable presence at the SFBC, as you will soon\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: small;\">hear<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: small;\">, his understanding of the bicycle streets of San Francisco \u00a0runs very deep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DownloadedFile-1.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/andy-thornley-san-francisco-bicycling-groundbreaker\/downloadedfile-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DownloadedFile-1.jpeg?fit=254%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"254,199\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DownloadedFile-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DownloadedFile-1.jpeg?fit=254%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7520 aligncenter\" alt=\"DownloadedFile-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DownloadedFile-1.jpeg?resize=254%2C199\" width=\"254\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[sc_embed_player fileurl=&#8221;http:\/\/nbg.bikeroute.com\/Podcasts\/SFBikingAndyT.mp3&#8243; title=&#8221;Interview&#8221;] \u00a0Interview with NBG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Thornley,\u00a0former\u00a0SFBC\u00a0Program Director, formerly of Boston, a qualified and knowledgeable presence at the SFBC, as you will soon\u00a0hear, his understanding&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/andy-thornley-san-francisco-bicycling-groundbreaker\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3VuuR-1Xh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7943,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/first-annual-tour-de-san-francisco\/","url_meta":{"origin":7519,"position":0},"title":"First Annual Tour de San Francisco","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On Sunday May 5th, . 60 cyclists met at San Francisco City Hall for a bike tour of San Francisco. 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