{"id":1691,"date":"2009-08-03T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/03\/happy-trails-to-nowhere"},"modified":"2009-08-03T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:13:00","slug":"happy-trails-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Happy trails, to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Is it just me or are Amarillo&#8217;s bicycle paths seemingly routes to oblivion?<\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve been trying to make sense of them. I&#8217;m coming up short.<\/p>\n<p>The city painted bike lanes near Windsor Elementary School, not far from where I live. They go around the corner and down the next street. Then they end somewhere. I don&#8217;t know what the city parks planners are thinking. Recently I drove by Avondale Elementary School and noticed the beginning of a bike lane just south of the school. I followed it along Avondale for a few blocks. Then it disappeared, or at least I think it did.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been a proponent of bicycle travel in Amarillo. Even on these hot summer days, we need to get out of our cars more and ride bikes. Those infamous March winds present a problem. Riding into the teeth of that bluster isn&#8217;t much fun. I get that.<\/p>\n<p>But if we&#8217;re going to have bike lanes, then there ought to be a bit more thought put into them than what I&#8217;ve seen in recent years in Amarillo.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or are Amarillo&#8217;s bicycle paths seemingly routes to oblivion? For years I&#8217;ve been trying to make sense of them. I&#8217;m coming up short. The city painted bike lanes near Windsor Elementary School, not far from where I live. They go around the corner and down the next street. Then they end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy trails, to nowhere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}