{"id":10409,"date":"2016-01-16T22:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T06:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:51","slug":"nbg-7-year-plan-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2016\/01\/16\/nbg-7-year-plan-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"NBG 7-Year Plan (draft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>NBG 7-Year Plan (draft)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NBGLogoFBook200px.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10410\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2016\/01\/16\/nbg-7-year-plan-draft\/nbglogofbook200px-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NBGLogoFBook200px.jpg?fit=200%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,148\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NBGLogoFBook200px\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NBGLogoFBook200px.jpg?fit=200%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10410 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NBGLogoFBook200px.jpg?resize=200%2C148\" alt=\"NBGLogoFBook200px\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Our 7-year plan consists of three stages: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Overview<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2016-2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The first three years will be made up of creating Virtual Tours (<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/12\/15\/harrahs-shows-road-bike-heaven-of-nbg-anchor-city-reno-nv\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Reno, NV example<\/b><\/span><\/a>) to establish our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/indexNBGBikingCities.php\"><span class=\"s2\">20 NBG Anchor Cities<\/span><\/a> as the dots that connect bicycle travel between San Francisco and Washington DC. The research and travel required will be underwritten by<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the crowdfunding campaign we plan to launch in March. To prepare the video and other content needed to support the March 2016 campaign that needs to raise $26,000, we are now running a GoFundMe fund raising drive for two of Krieg\u2019s books one of which he has had written since 1995. In the second year of this campaign (talked about in more detail below), we will begin monetizing our efforts with a sales professional.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Concurrently, we will be encouraging cycle tourists to ride all or parts of our coast to coast route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Since Krieg completed the manuscript for, \u201cHow to Move Mountains with Love and How Love Can Revitalize You, Our Communities, Nation and the World with the National Bicycle Greenway\u201d before 2016 began and it is now being edited (help offset this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/lovebook\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>expense<\/b><\/span><\/a>), he has already begun work on his new book. He plans to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>complete <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2016\/01\/17\/national-bicycle-greenway-the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe National Bicycle Greenway Book\u201d<\/a><\/strong> (NBB) before 2017. NBB is a compendium of his several decades worth of selected NBG writings as well as present developments and what is planned for the National Bicycle Greenway. Besides NBB being a fund raiser, it will also serve as an awareness invoking tool. As such, the financial sponsors <\/span><span class=\"s3\">who help to get it written<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/nbgbook\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>NBB GoFundMe campaign<\/b><\/span><\/a> will be noted in NBB alongside those cyclists who ride all or part of our San Francisco to Washington, DC route (cycle tourists wanted <b>NOW<\/b>!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Also in 2017 we plan to bring on a part-time Mayors\u2019 Ride coordinator so we can<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>expand our <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalMayorsRideOverview\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Mayors\u2019 Ride campaign<\/span><\/a> to its original coast to coast format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2019-2020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">At Level Two we will seek grant money to then build NBG offices in our NBG Anchor cities and will monetize them with the professionals we bring in to staff Virtual Tour sales positions at them. Here in this time frame we will also seek funding for the NBG Hubs first talked about in \u201cHow America Can Bike and Grow Rich, the National Bicycle Greenway in Action\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(HBGR) and more specifically in Krieg\u2019s new book noted above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2021-2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">At Level Three of this plan, we will be calling for funds both from sales and grants to reverse engineer our Anchor cities with protected bike lanes, Neighborhood Greenways, traffic calming devices and the infrastructure specific needs that will all be required to upgrade the roads and paths we have identified. This will have the effect of formalizing and making permanent each Anchor City&#8217;s National Bicycle Greenway alignment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2023 &#8211; on<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Once we have established the 20 NBG Anchor Cities as the dots that hold coast-to-coast bike travel together, we will work with the public sector to redesign the roads and paths that connect them to one another. It is here where there is open space, that we foresee more Car-Free arterials, as well as park-like settings that families can use for vacation fun per what we have long foreseen in our original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/nbghow.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Vision Statement<\/span><\/a> that dates back to 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Rationale &amp; Methodology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Driven by the fact that we know a healthier planet and healthier people cannot help but be the result, we will be using a lot of the same methodology the Lincoln Hwy (in 1912, this was America&#8217;s first coast-to-coast car road) people used to make our transamerica bike connection safe, enjoyable and real. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Learning from the some of the mistakes they made (detailed in this <a href=\"http:\/\/hbgr.blogspot.ie\/2013\/08\/lessons-learned-from-americas-first.html\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>report<\/b><\/span><\/a>), we will market our vision strategically with the campaigns more fully described below. Unlike the Lincoln people, instead of expending a lot of resources and energy trying to sell the fledgling car industry into their scheme, they were never able to land their biggest mark, Henry Ford, we will rely on the power of the people found in crowdfunding* to get our route known about as well as used on its way toward its becoming the principal National Bicycle Greenway arterial. In the footnote below, you can see other reasons why we know we are in a far better position to make our vision real than the Lincoln people who started but never fully actualized their dream. **<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Campaign One<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead of the national parks and forests the US Govt., as a way to encourage motor travel in the early 1900\u2019s, tried to bring people to with its Office for Public Roads, we will celebrate our 20 NBG Anchor Cities as a way to encourage bicycle travel on our right of way. To make the population centers we have chosen attractive biking destinations, our plan is to celebrate them from the cyclist\u2019s perspective. Toward that end, we will be showcasing our NBG Anchor Cities with Virtual Tours, on line bike routes that connect cyclists to all the places to eat, play, shop, sightsee and recreate in them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2017, once we have seeded half of our coast-to-coast route with Virtual Tours, we will recruit and groom a commissions only, professional marketer who will garner the support of those businesses I will have identified &#8211; while I am actually on the road. In real time, then, this person<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>will be following up on the leads I generate daily from the cyclists actually out on the streets. Besides showing the viability of this income stream, until this position grows into one or more for each NBG Anchor City, this person will be helping these businesses capture some of the bicycle traffic the NBG will have brought about. They will have done this by helping them get icon and listing presences on our maps. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Besides supporting cyclists, as the numbers of these merchants grow, they will help move our vision along by drawing attention to our route and our dream for it. Not only will they market themselves to their present and potential customers as their being a green part of our program, they will also exert a subtle pressure on their local governments to keep our right of way safe and well functioning. This is how their efforts will also make their businesses attractive to out of town cyclists. Taken as a whole, their work will also have the effect of making the cities they do business from look both familiar and welcome to bike riders from all over America. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In order to do the kind of hands on research talked about here, ordinarily<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the biggest expense would be for lodging. This is not reflected in the P&amp;L<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>below because my efforts will be based out of one hotel sponsor in each city. And as such, in exchange for this privilege, they will have been made the anchor lodging purveyor for their population center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">What they will get in exchange is an exclusive presence for their place of business on our national map on the main page at BikeRoute.com. As well they will get<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the only display advertising position that appears on their NBG Anchor cities pages, the footer ad position. And they will get a full page ad in NBB opposite the Anchor City biking report card for their city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The biggest incentive for them to participate in such a way is the Virtual Tour that will result. With it all of the bike routes we devise will connect to their hotel. Here all these businesses will become community that can also offer discounts for customers who patronize one another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Campaign Two<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">By my getting our route<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>known about and ridden as we also celebrate, our 20 NBG Anchor Cities, the buzz our efforts generate will get us to the next level of making the National Bicycle Greenway real. As the vision we have long held for a dedicated bicycle greenway evolving from the roads and paths we have selected grows into the popular consciousness, a ground swell of new resources and talent will make itself available to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">As such, we feel our work up to this point will have made the National Bicycle Greenway a part of the national dialogue. And once it is accepted as America&#8217;s principal coast-to-coast bicycle travel corridor, our being known about in this way will give us the authority we will need at this next level. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">At the end of our first 3-year campaign, we will launch another crowd funding drive. At this level we will be seeking funds to get the administration, people and a Sacramento, Davis or San Francisco main hub office built that will attract lobbyists and top salespeople for the NBG business plan I have been working on and off on since 2007. Complete with the NBG Hubs talked about in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>HBGR, what I have worked up will compound the drawing power of our NBG Biking Cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Once this campaign is complete, as I&#8217;ve indicated above, not only will the next level of fundraising bring us a revenue generating engine that will make our NBG<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>hubs possible with professional salespeople, but it will also help us underwrite:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&#8211; A full time staffer for the NBG Anchor Cities program we will monetize<br \/>\n&#8211; A Graphic Artist\u00a0 and Google API cartographer for our SF to DC main map at BikeRoute.com<br \/>\n&#8211; A Coordinator for the Mayors&#8217; Ride program we will also monetize at level 3 that has been running since 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Campaign Three<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In fully fleshing out and making permanent the NBG alignments in our Anchor Cities, we will defer to staff that will have come aboard at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Level Two to formulate the procedure that will enable us to work with the public sector to make the National Bicycle Greenway real.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By this time, we also hope to have developed strong revenue stream from our Virtual Tour, NBG Anchor City and Mayors\u2019 Ride programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Campaign One P&amp;L<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Revenue<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Campaign One P&amp;L<\/p>\n<p>Revenue<br \/>\n26000 Crowdfunding 2016<br \/>\n36200 Crowdfunding 2017<br \/>\n36200 Crowdfunding 2018<br \/>\n98400 Total 3 year revenue<\/p>\n<p>Expense<br \/>\nOff the road Per Month (for 6 mos)<br \/>\n1800 Living expenses, rent, food, misc<br \/>\n100 Public Transit w\/Clipper Card<br \/>\n1900 Total\/mo<br \/>\n11400 Year Total Off Road expense<br \/>\nOn the road Per Month (for 6 mos)<br \/>\n3000 per diem (100\/day)<br \/>\n500 inter city truck transfer<br \/>\n100 shuttles<br \/>\n200 Web Design Icon placement<br \/>\n3800 Total\/mo<br \/>\n2000 Trade Shows: Recumbent Cycle Con, Interbike<br \/>\n24800 Year Total On Road expense<br \/>\n1200 Macbook Air Computer (year one only)<br \/>\n37400 Total Expense\/year<\/p>\n<p>99600 THREE YEAR CAMPAIGN (year one off-road paid by Krieg)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Note: The sales professional we plan to bring on in 2017 will be commission only<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Schedule<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In order to build our Virtual Tours, I will need to spend 10-14 days in each of our cities. During this time, I will be traveling on the world&#8217;s fastest production bicycle, a recumbent that that Lightning<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cycle Dynamics is sponsoring for this effort. A machine that folds to fit inside of a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>suitcase, the Lightning<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>P-38 has set speed records all over the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>USA and the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">On it, I will<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>be actually riding the roads and paths locals and the crowd-sourced data Google Maps suggest. As well, I will be getting to know the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>sights and things for a cyclist to do and see. I will be getting to know the local merchants as I also develop leads for sales crew follow up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Our proposed schedule is <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/events\/\"><span class=\"s2\">HERE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>* Crowdfunding &#8211; what is it?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The answer to this question can be found in the Internet based crowd-source revolution that is sweeping America. Led by companies such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and RocketHub, etc, since 2009 they have underwritten a plethora of exciting new products and services! Also known a crowdfunding, this industry raised over $16 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow to 34 billion in 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>** Then and Now, why we can actualize NBG More expeditiously <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Since we have so many more tools at hand since the early days of the Lincoln, the odds of our making the car-free heaven of our National Bicycle Greenway real are better than what the early Lincoln people were stacked up against in the early 1900s. Then cars were thought of as toys for the rich. Forget cellphones, then word traveled from one coast to the other by telegraph as the first coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call didn t take place until 1915. Radio was still being developed. And television was an unknown. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Here now as we march through<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the next millennium with a mature Internet, the implements all of us have at our disposal for spreading the news increase with almost daily regularity. No longer, for example, is cartography an almost secret science requiring a lot of resources and special licenses, people all over the world are making maps on line<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>for their own use on a daily basis. Unlike back at the turn of the previous century when we barely knew what was going on in the next city or town, we now know what is going on in cities as many as 12 times zones away. We know their<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>weather, we know their news and with a few mouse clicks we can know the condition of the very roads they travel on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>*** Office of Public Roads (OPR)\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"> In terms of a coast-to-coast bikeway that will also be romanticized and become the standard by which all the countless others that follow will be judged, we can usher its early beginnings into form as, I am suggesting,.by modifying the approach the US Government took at the turn of the last Century. In 1905 they formed the Office of Public Roads (OPR)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to design and build roads to America s National Parks and National Forests.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When the OPR graded and covered the dirt access that already existed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to these locations with gravel, stone, sand-clay, brick, shells or oil, they<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>gave the early car travelers of the day a reward for driving longer distances in their automobiles<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Background<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">When using the data they had accumulated, Carl Fisher and Henry Joy formed the lincoln Hwy Assn to support a red line on a map of the United States that connected New York City with San Francisco, and called it the Lincoln Highway, it was described by many as no more than ruts in the grass or a red line on a map connecting all the worst mudholes in the country. Even in their wildest imaginings, there was no way these two men could have known the consequences of their action. Hardly could they have foreseen all the other roads it would spawn, all the automobiles it would engender, the magnitude of the government oversight that would be required to keep it going, the amount of asphalt it would lay, concrete it would pour, cities it would give rise to, and, in the end, all the environmental depredation it would bring about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Now that our 16 years of research have finally given us the red line at BikeRoute.com that connects San Francisco with the Nation&#8217;s capitol that we are calling the National Bicycle Greenway, our work will begin in the cities where most people live, work and play. As for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the connections between population centers we feel those will be easier to develop after<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the NBG first becomes successful in the towns and cities along our way. In fact, the surge in cycling that will result from improved biking infrastructure will amplify the voice that calls for human powered inter-city connectivity . <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Since we have so many more tools at hand since the early days of the Lincoln, the odds of our making the car-free heaven of our National Bicycle Greenway real are better than what the early Lincoln people were stacked up against in the early 1900s. Then cars were thought of as toys for the rich. Forget cellphones, then word traveled from one coast to the other by telegraph as the first coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call didn\u2019t take place until 1915. Radio was still being developed. And television was an unknown. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Here now as we march through<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the third millennium with a mature Internet, the implements all of us have at our disposal for spreading the news increase with almost daily regularity. No longer, for example, is cartography an almost secret science requiring a lot of resources and special licenses, people all over the world are making maps on line<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>for their own use on a daily basis. Unlike back at the turn of the previous century when we barely knew what was going on in the next city or town, we now know what is going on in cities as many as 12 times zones away. We know their<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>weather, we know their news and with a few mouse clicks we can know the condition of the very roads they travel on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The man who pushed for the Lincoln Highway was Carl Fisher. He was made famous by fomenting the building of the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway. In getting the Lincoln begun he was propped up by the fledgling automobile industry. His dream inspired poetry, even sermons by preachers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Here now as we reverse engineer much of the world his actions brought about, it will be two and three wheeled human propulsion that will capture the imagination of the future ahead of us!! Full steam ahead for the National Bicycle Greenway!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBG 7-Year Plan (draft) Our 7-year plan consists of three stages: Overview 2016-2018 The first three years will be made&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2016\/01\/16\/nbg-7-year-plan-draft\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,106,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenway","category-how-love-reawaken","category-the-book"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-2HT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16759,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2022\/08\/12\/nbg-general-plan-draft\/","url_meta":{"origin":10409,"position":0},"title":"NBG General Plan (draft)","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"2022 Promote\/Flesh out Indianapolis 2022-2023\u00a0 - Flesh\u00a0 out NBG Anchor Cities on SF to DC route - Edit\/publish NBG blueprint\/General plan* - Recruit Vols\u00a0 build anchor city POI database** - Get all Anchor City Biking report cards current *** - Hire Grant Writer \u00a02024 - Contract with consultants to monetize\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-12-at-10.43.16-PM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15656,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/12\/18\/indianapolis-nbg-hub-proposed\/","url_meta":{"origin":10409,"position":1},"title":"Indianapolis NBG Hub (proposed)","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"December 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I long have had this as a pencil sketch draft. 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One ticket Indianapolis to Chicago (On USBR 35). One ticket Cincinnati to Columbus. One ticket Columbus to Pittsburgh. 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