{"id":662,"date":"2010-11-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2010\/11\/30\/bicycle-city\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:03:51","slug":"bicycle-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/bicycle-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle City"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TPRtaVLPS6I\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/uZs81OFFLIc\/s1600\/blog.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9-coSRlRBkE\/TPRtaVLPS6I\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/uZs81OFFLIc\/s320\/blog.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">pedbikeimages.org\/Dan Burden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Imagine a planned car-free community where people can live, play, work and visit.\u00a0 This community includes trails, community gardens, schools, housing and more.\u00a0 Residents and visitors park their vehicles on the perimeter of the community and walk or bike into the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>This utopian car-free community is built with sustainability in mind.\u00a0 Buildings have small footprints and are energy efficient.\u00a0 Paths and trails are built with permeable surfaces so they will have minimal impact on the earth, and gardens are organic.\u00a0 Schools are within biking or walking distance, and a nearby greenway connects you to rail and transit.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine that this community is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclecity.com\/\"><b>Bicycle City<\/b><\/a> and it&#8217;s located in the USA.\u00a0 Sound too good to be true?\u00a0 Well think again.\u00a0 The first Bicycle City is breaking ground on December 11 near Columbia, South Carolina, and first home sites will be for sale soon.\u00a0 Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclecitysc.com\/\"><b>South Carolina project<\/b><\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind Bicycle City are thinking big.\u00a0 They hope the Columbia community becomes a model for other planned Bicycle Cities around the country and around the world.\u00a0 They have already evaluated many states, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclecity.com\/Bicycle-City-Washington-WA\/\"><b>Washington<\/b><\/a>, and have identified potential locations for future Bicycle Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Bicycle City, Washington.\u00a0 Sounds pretty inviting, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pedbikeimages.org\/Dan Burden Imagine a planned car-free community where people can live, play, work and visit.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[56,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-by-bike","category-sustainable-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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