{"id":7475,"date":"2013-12-15T19:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:56","slug":"san-francisco-cycling-exploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/12\/15\/san-francisco-cycling-exploding\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Cycling Exploding!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bikeroute.com\\\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\\\/2013\\\/12\\\/15\\\/san-francisco-cycling-exploding\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:58030937}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 735px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"735\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 735px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"735\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/12\/15\/san-francisco-cycling-exploding\/628x471\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1096\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"731\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"7476\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"628,419\" data-comments-opened=\"\" 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=\"628&amp;#215;471\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg?fit=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg?fit=628%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg?w=1096&#038;h=731&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg?w=628&amp;ssl=1 628w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/628x471.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w\" width=\"1096\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"1096\" data-original-height=\"731\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"628x471\" alt=\"628x471\" style=\"width: 1096px; height: 731px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>If you build it, they will come!\u00a0San Francisco cycling is filling the city with cyclists<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">The number of people riding bikes has increased 14 percent since 2011 and 96 percent since 2006. That&#8217;s the conclusion of the 2013 bicycle count taken by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=bayarea&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Municipal+Transportation+Agency%22\">Municipal Transportation Agency<\/a>\u00a0in September and released\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/San-Francisco-bicycle-boom-follows-bike-friendly-5060338.php#photo-5590980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you build it, they will come!\u00a0San Francisco cycling is filling the city with cyclists The number of people riding&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/12\/15\/san-francisco-cycling-exploding\/\">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":[78,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nbggrabbag","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1Wz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5651,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/27\/critical-mass-turns-20-returns-cycling-to-the-masses\/","url_meta":{"origin":7475,"position":0},"title":"Critical Mass Turns 20, Returns Cycling to the Masses&#8230;","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here now twenty years after it began, people are finally starting to see what the importance of the Critical Mass movement. 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