{"id":803,"date":"2010-08-05T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=803"},"modified":"2010-08-05T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:42:44","slug":"los-angeles-mayor-villaraigosa-announces-aug-16-as-date-for-city-bike-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2010\/08\/05\/los-angeles-mayor-villaraigosa-announces-aug-16-as-date-for-city-bike-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Announces Aug. 16 As Date For City &#8216;Bike Summit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/city-news\/villaraigosa-bike-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LAWeekly<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday that his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/city-news\/villaraigosa-bicycle-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">aforementioned &#8220;Bike Summit&#8221;<\/a> would happen Aug. 16 (from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the board room of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, One Gateway Plaza, downtown).<\/p>\n<p>Bike activists, city officials, transportation planners and police will discuss a 1,600-mile city bike path plan, police enforcement of traffic laws as it concerns cyclists and integration of &#8220;bike ways&#8221; with the area&#8217;s bus and rail network, according to the mayor&#8217;s office.\u00a0Mountain biking is illegal on unpaved roads and trails in all LA City parks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s get together and talk about what we need to do to make the streets safer for cyclists,&#8221; said Mayor Villaraigosa. &#8220;Whether you depend on your bike for commuting or just take it out for fun, I invite you to come to the Bike Summit to talk about your experiences and learn about what we&#8217;re doing in Los Angeles to make streets safer for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Villaraigosa first announced his plans for the Bike Summit in July.<\/p>\n<p>Villaraigosa was famously involved in a bike-versus-cab accident earlier this month that left him with a broken elbow and newfound respect for cyclists&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From LAWeekly Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday that his aforementioned &#8220;Bike Summit&#8221; would happen Aug. 16 (from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the board room of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, One Gateway Plaza, downtown). Bike activists, city officials, transportation planners and police will discuss a 1,600-mile city bike path plan, police enforcement of traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}