{"id":5471,"date":"2010-07-17T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2010-07-17T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T12:07:06","slug":"cycling-saturdays-2010-07-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=5471","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Saturdays &#8211; 2010-07-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new group on FB &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=136334329719575&amp;v=info&amp;ref=mf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I love the Bourke Street Cycleway<\/a>.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5237\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RedfernBourkeStreetCycleWork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5237\" title=\"RedfernBourkeStreetCycleWork\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RedfernBourkeStreetCycleWork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Size.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThey say:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>As a first act, I think we should inform all businesses on the South  Sydney Corporate Park site, and general Bourke Rd precinct, that we will  no longer purchase their goods and\/or services until they cease formal  opposition to the magnificent (if flawed) public resource that is the  cycleway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Secondly, when anti-cycleway messages are sent to all  employees on site at South Sydney Corporate Park, we demand the  automatic right to email an alternative viewpoint to the same users. And  when we say demand, we mean, um, can we please have this right, Sir or  Ma&#8217;am? Pretty please?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thirdly, I think those of who work for News  Magazines at SSCP should buy segments of a healthy, organic dead animal  and BBQ  together at the barbies near Bourke Rd. Does Friday July 23 at  12.30 pm work for most people? I buy, you bring some gold coins for  expenses&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sydney Media say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneymedia.com.au\/html\/4315-sydney-loves-a-bike-network.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sydney Loves a Bike Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">New research shows that 84 per cent of inner Sydney residents consider a good bike network to be important and that three in four want the network built.<\/p>\n<p>Residents recognise that congestion on Sydney&#8217;s roads is a major problem (forecast to grow 23 per cent over the next 15 years), with half of those polled saying the main benefit of a cycleway network is less traffic congestion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I put a comment into an <a href=\"http:\/\/wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au\/news\/story\/we-cycling-new-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article on the Wentworth Courier,<\/a> but it has not been approved yet.\u00a0 There have not been any comments approved form the day I submitted it so maybe it will be next week. I forgot to record it. But it went something like this: I ride 5 days a week on the bourke street cycleway. I think riders may be avoding it while it is a construction zone. Sydney needs to be a modern city and have good infrastructure like this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au\/news\/story\/we-cycling-new-survey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5532\" title=\"20100717NewspaperClip\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100717NewspaperClip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new group on FB &#8211; I love the Bourke Street Cycleway. They say:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[511],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-bourke-street-cycleway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}