{"id":313,"date":"2005-11-09T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=313"},"modified":"2005-11-17T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T15:56:58","slug":"does-the-bike-plan-have-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/11\/09\/does-the-bike-plan-have-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Bike Plan have legs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/images\/thestar\/img\/051109_bicycle_300.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of late, we have been bemoaning the lack of action by the City on its own Bike Plan (for background click <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=258\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=308\">here<\/a>). The Toronto Star reports today that the slash in funding that happened last week (down to $2.2 million from $3 million) from the Finance Committee, may be restored today by the Works Committee. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1131490201463&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845&#038;DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&#038;tacodalogin=yes\">Read about here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of late, we have been bemoaning the lack of action by the City on its own Bike Plan (for background click here and here). The Toronto Star reports today that the slash in funding that happened last week (down to $2.2 million from $3 million) from the Finance Committee, may be restored today by<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/11\/09\/does-the-bike-plan-have-legs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Does the Bike Plan have legs?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[986,339,341,391,904],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-politics","tag-finance-committee","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto-star","tag-usd","tag-works-committee"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does the Bike Plan have legs? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/11\/09\/does-the-bike-plan-have-legs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does the Bike Plan have legs? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As of late, we have been bemoaning the lack of action by the City on its own Bike Plan (for background click here and here). 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