{"id":358,"date":"2008-03-14T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-03-14T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T05:12:32","slug":"bike-advocacy-london-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Bike Advocacy London-Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=360\" title=\"geurilla_lane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geurilla_lane.jpg\" alt=\"geurilla_lane.jpg\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-359\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=359\" title=\"bike-lane-london.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mashmonster&#8217;s flatmate Stew spent a number of years living in London where he was involved with a group who promoted sustainable living in the city. These guys grew their own vegies all did all the usual treehugging activities\u00a0that hippies\u00a0everywhere typically get up to.. except these guys\u00a0were way cooler! Ever heard of\u00a0<strong><em>&#8216;Guerilla Bicycle Advocacy&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>?? Nup, me neither.. but this is what Stew and his hippy buddies were into.. At night they&#8217;d head out into the city with a can of white paint and a bike stencil and paint in their own bike lanes. Awesome. Apparently it worked pretty well as most drivers didn&#8217;t notice that the new lanes weren&#8217;t legit and moved over for the cyclists. This yarn really appealed to me eh. Anyway here is a link to a London blog on &#8216;Guerilla Bike Lane Painting&#8217;: <a href=\"http:\/\/londoncommons.net\/node\/945\">http:\/\/londoncommons.net\/node\/945<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdraildesignlab.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=55&amp;t=6769\">http:\/\/www.thirdraildesignlab.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=55&amp;t=6769<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mashmonster&#8217;s flatmate Stew spent a number of years living in London where he was involved with a group who promoted sustainable living in the city. These guys grew their own vegies all did all the usual treehugging activities\u00a0that hippies\u00a0everywhere typically get up to.. except these guys\u00a0were way cooler! Ever heard of\u00a0&#8216;Guerilla Bicycle Advocacy&#8217;?? Nup, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bike Advocacy London-Style!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}