{"id":16317,"date":"2014-05-04T04:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16317"},"modified":"2014-05-04T04:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:32:26","slug":"california-celebrates-national-bike-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-celebrates-national-bike-month\/","title":{"rendered":"California Celebrates National Bike Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bvalet.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May is National Bike Month, established in 1956 to promote riding bicycles. \u00a0Though\u00a0a Travel Channel columnist ranked\u00a0only two cities in California as bike friendly (San Francisco #6, and Long Beach #23,) among the top in the nation, \u00a0Californians would beg to differ.\u00a0In a\u00a0week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-amgen.html\"><span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">AMGEN<\/span> Tour of California<\/a> will pass through\u00a0dozens of cities in\u00a0the state bringing one of the world&#8217;s biggest bike races and\u00a0top athletes to the Golden State. California deserves much credit for hosting this event.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, nearly every major city in California has developed and filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/california-bicycle-master-plan.html\">bike master plan <\/a>with goals to increase bike opportunities and safety. \u00a0Many cities are encouraging cyclists ride to festivals and events to save money and lighten impacts on local roads. Californians are seeing more &amp; more bicycle valets, free services to park your bike. L.A.&#8217;s South Bay, Huntington Beach, Berkeley and many other popular destinations\u00a0are offering this amenity at special events to encourage locals and tourists\u00a0to come on bikes.<\/p>\n<p>California was one of the first states in the nation to create bike lanes\u00a0and just recently San Diego and Los Angeles held events in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ciclavia-car-free-day-on-wilshire-blvd\/\">streets were closed<\/a>\u00a0to motorized\u00a0traffic for a day so bicyclists could enjoy riding car-free.\u00a0\u00a0UC Davis campus is off-limits to cars\u00a0so\u00a0students typically take bikes to class. It&#8217;s no wonder they call it Bike City. There are more bicycles per capita than any city in the nation, and Davis houses\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame (usbhof.org).<\/p>\n<p>With the price of gasoline so high, bicycling looks more appealing\u00a0each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is National Bike Month, established in 1956 to promote riding bicycles. \u00a0Though\u00a0a Travel Channel columnist ranked\u00a0only two cities in California as bike friendly (San Francisco #6, and Long Beach #23,) among the top in the nation, \u00a0Californians would beg to differ.\u00a0In a\u00a0week AMGEN Tour of California will pass through\u00a0dozens of cities in\u00a0the state bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}