{"id":2333,"date":"2008-08-13T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T15:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/where_the_stree\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T15:41:26","slug":"where_the_stree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/where_the_stree\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The Streets Have No Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/002297.html\">I blogged<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ciclova\">ciclov\u00eda<\/a> in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, asking: &#8220;What if Ciclovia caught on in America?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt appears a form of that has happened, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/archives\/summer-streets-2008-nyc\/\">here it is in New York City<\/a>:<br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"369\" width=\"450\" data=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/flvplayer.swf\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/flvplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"displayheight=349&#038;file=http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/summer-streets-2008_768k.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/summerstreets-2008-poster.jpg&#038;overstretch=true&#038;showfsbutton=false&#038;showdigits=true&#038;backcolor=0x22313c&#038;frontcolor=0xbfced8&#038;lightcolor=0xc1d72e&#038;volume=90&#038;autostart=false&#038;logo=http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/wp-content\/themes\/woonerf\/img\/streetfilms_watermark.png&#038;link=http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org&#038;title=Summer Streets 2008 (NYC) OFFSITE&#038;id=1046&#038;callback=http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/streetfilms\/statistics.php\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting how much better the streets look when they are full of people, not noisy vehicles.  And look at the smiles.<br \/>\nA little Googling reveals that such events are being held in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicloviaelpaso.com\/\">El Paso, TX<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audaciousideas.org\/?p=49\">Baltimore, MD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/transportation\/index.cfm?c=46103\">Portland, OR<\/a>, among other cities.<br \/>\nI hope this movement continues to spread to other cities, including Knoxville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/where_the_stree\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Where The Streets Have No Cars\"><p>Last year I blogged about the ciclov\u00eda in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, asking: &#8220;What if Ciclovia caught on in America?&#8221; It appears a form of that has happened, here it is in New York City: It&#8217;s interesting how much better the streets look when they are full of people, not noisy vehicles. And look at the smiles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}