{"id":16692,"date":"2022-07-13T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:58:35","slug":"nbg-direction-posted-at-bikeroute-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2022\/07\/13\/nbg-direction-posted-at-bikeroute-com\/","title":{"rendered":"NBG Direction (posted at BikeRoute.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating Cycling in Cities Where People Live<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

By combining the work our NBG Scouts did from 1998 to 2010, with the GPS input that came our way when we had interactive maps at our site (2007-2009) and then the crowd sourced bike route data that Google now has on line, in 2014, we put the San Francisco to Washington, DC connection we developed on the landing page of\u00a0BikeRoute.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

To strengthen our push to turn it into a greenway, safe for cyclists, in mirroring what Carl Fisher did with the Lincoln Highway of 1914, America\u2019s first coast-to-coast car road\u00a0described HERE<\/b><\/a>, in 2018 we moved our operation to where the Lincoln was begun \u2013 Indianapolis! By moving to Indianapolis, the\u00a0Birthplace of the Automobile industry<\/b>, which has come full circle to it now being the\u00a0Greenway Capitol of the World<\/b>\u00a0with also the most\u00a0Bikeable Downtown on the Planet<\/b>, with great authority, we are able to show the precedent the Lincoln has set for our effort, America\u2019s first coast-to-coast bicycle road.<\/p>\n

In showing the colossal impact the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, once the wealthiest city in the USA, has had on the rest of this Nation with the Lincoln Hwy, with its car manufacturing, with the Indy 500 (still the largest spectator event in the world), with the now deceased largest inter-urban train system in the country, with the first car headlight and\u00a0 <\/span>all of its other breakthrough industries, etc, our Director, Martin Krieg, wrote the book \u201c<\/b>How Indianapolis Built America<\/b><\/a>\u201d<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In going forward, in light of the fact that almost half of the USA is uninhabited, with most of that being west of the Mississippi, instead of making DC our destination, reaching San Francisco has become our goal. Besides that being what the Lincoln Hwy did, here\u2019s more of our rationale.<\/p>\n

There are 1.78 million sq. miles where no one lives in America. These lands are made up of\u00a0 <\/span>large wilderness areas, filled with uninhabitable mountains, endless deserts and off-limits nature reserves. There are also endless miles of farmland and military installations, etc.\u00a0 <\/span>With little in the way of traffic, it is in this open space where the bike routes we have specced out will have little change.<\/p>\n

As such then, we\u00a0 <\/span>have switched our focus to the 18 NBG Anchor Cities that hold our route from San Francisco to Washington DC together. Our first order of business will be to fully flesh out all the biking magic in the city of Indianapolis. This is so because, we need for the Indy example to be implemented all over America.<\/p>\n

By showing off the biking infrastructure here, Indianapolis will become a Mecca that will draw cyclists from all over the nation and all around the globe.\u00a0And when it becomes a destination for cyclists coming from both coasts and all over America, bike riders will take the example we set here back to their own communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once our Indianapolis work is soon complete, we will use it as a template for the rest of our Anchor Cities that can be found at\u00a0this link<\/b><\/a>. All the information there, will all be updated and reformatted to appear in the icons that appear on our TransAm map at Bikeroute.com. In the end, this will make all the cities along our route familiar to cyclists. When they are not seen as blackbox\/population centers to be avoided, they will all become attractive destinations to those on a pedal machine.<\/p>\n

When people see that you can ride a bicycle in the big cities on our route and do so safely, it will bring the notion of crossing the country on a bicycle into one\u2019s possibility consciousness. They will realize they can do a TransAm ride across America at their own pace, in sections. And as they do, they will also get to enjoy all the culture and history that make each city in these United States different from one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating Cycling in Cities Where People Live By combining the work our NBG Scouts did from 1998 to 2010, with… 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-4le","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16928,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2022\/11\/30\/webber-monetize-bikeroute-com-to-make-national-bicycle-greenway-real\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":0},"title":"Webber Monetize BikeRoute.com to Make National Bicycle Greenway Real","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"November 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From the NBG Blueprint outline, while I write it, it would be awesome if we could put Anchor City research crews to work NOW. The seed capital they would need so they can begin determining where to eat, sleep, shop and visit with a bike route that connects them in\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\/11\/317364437_3339670322987323_8572545253130404751_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9080,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2017\/04\/17\/coast-to-coast-rider-wanted\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":1},"title":"Coast-to-Coast Mayors’ Ride Rider(s) Wanted","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"April 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"After 14 years of Mayors\u2019 Rides, we have fleshed out the route (HERE) from San Francisco to Washington, DC that went live in 2014 and are looking for a cyclist(s) to ride it. We are looking for someone who can pay their own expenses and do the ride during the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Greenway"","block_context":{"text":"Greenway","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/greenway\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screen shot 2015-02-09 at 2.49.52 PM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-2.49.52-PM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-2.49.52-PM.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-2.49.52-PM.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-2.49.52-PM.png?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-2.49.52-PM.png?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15637,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/12\/14\/getting-the-nbg-route-signed\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":2},"title":"Getting the NBG Route Signed","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"December 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This is how the Lincoln Highway, the first coast-to-coast car road, that originated in Indianapolis, marked their route. In plotting the methodology for getting markers on the ground for our National Bicycle Greenway that is on line at bikeroute.com, this one of the details we are\u00a0 working five days a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lincoln Hwy"","block_context":{"text":"Lincoln Hwy","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/lincoln-hwy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/131297893_10218384022008738_1244063160554591552_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/131297893_10218384022008738_1244063160554591552_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/131297893_10218384022008738_1244063160554591552_n.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10467,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2016\/01\/30\/nbg-sf-to-dc-trailblazers-wanted\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":3},"title":"NBG SF to Washington, DC Trailblazers Wanted","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"January 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u200b Now that we have our main\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway (NBG)\u00a0route from\u00a0San Francisco to Washington, DC on line at\u00a0BikeRoute.com, while we develop Virtual Tours (HERE is the one we recently did for Reno, NV) from the hotels that anchor each \u00a0of our\u00a0Anchor Cities,\u00a0you can help us make the NBG real by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Greenway"","block_context":{"text":"Greenway","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/greenway\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NBGLogoFBook200px","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NBGLogoFBook200px.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1348,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/08\/28\/rapid-transit-cycle-takes-first-position-on-nbg-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":4},"title":"Rapid Transit Cycle Takes First Position on NBG Map","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Rapid Transit Cycle, the bicycle giant of Chicago, whose business we have grown with starting with our production and long-time maintenance of their very first web page, has moved to the next level of their long-time National Bicycle Greenway sponsorship. Rapid Transit Podcast In following the tradition of other American\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Chicago"","block_context":{"text":"Chicago","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/chicago\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"24165202-p1080471_0-preview1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/24165202-p1080471_0-preview1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9154,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/02\/19\/palo-alto-to-serve-as-cornerstone-for-national-bicycle-greenway\/","url_meta":{"origin":16692,"position":5},"title":"Palo Alto – Cornerstone for National Bicycle Greenway","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"February 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Led by former Palo Alto resident and National Bicycle Greenway director, Martin Krieg, who is now living in Indianapolis (why), the home of the NBG, the NBG long (after 12 years of coast-to-coast Mayors' Rides) has seen Palo Alto as the cornerstone for its coast-to-coast bike route. Since the most\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/22-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/22-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/22-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/22-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16699,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}