{"id":2242,"date":"2007-09-18T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2007-09-18T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T00:06:06","slug":"it-isnt-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"It isn&#8217;t rocket science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; just technology a century and a half old, and it is called the bicycle. Cycling England has <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/transport\/Story\/0,,2170848,00.html\">calculated<\/a> that &#8220;making a \u00c2\u00a370m annual investment in cycling initiatives the government could cut up to 54m car journeys a year by 2012 and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tonnes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But to really make it happen, what you have to do is go back not quite to the start of the bicycle, but certainly the best part of a century, and make the roads, at least the small city and suburban roads, do what they were originally designed to do &#8211; get people around by foot and slow transport (then animal, now bicycle), and made motor vehicles a highly restricted, rare form of transport, used only when strictly necessary, for the disabled and for transport of goods that can&#8217;t practically be carried any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; just technology a century and a half old, and it is called the bicycle. Cycling England has calculated that &#8220;making a \u00c2\u00a370m annual investment in cycling initiatives the government could cut up to 54m car journeys a year by 2012 and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tonnes&#8221;. But to really make it happen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}