{"id":12935,"date":"2012-12-27T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=12935"},"modified":"2013-02-08T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:49:13","slug":"wider-bike-lanes-likely-on-the-docket-this-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/12\/27\/wider-bike-lanes-likely-on-the-docket-this-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Wider Bike Lanes Likely On The Docket This Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12936\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 225px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/12\/bikelane.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12936\" title=\"bikelane\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/12\/bikelane-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/12\/bikelane-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/12\/bikelane.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mark Phu, Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos\/la-fi-hy-highway-deaths-fall-20121210,0,7268820.story\" target=\"_blank\">national cyclist and pedestrian deaths continue to climb<\/a>, Complete Streets \u2013 the movement to make roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, public transit users and motorists \u2013 has an advocate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Conservative Representative Lenette Peterson of Merrimack, who lists \u2018getting handguns back in the state house,\u2019 among her policy priorities, is proposing a bill that would require the state to widen shoulders and bicycle lanes, in compliance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartgrowthamerica.org\/guides\/complete-streets-local-policy-workbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Streets guidelines<\/a> offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartgrowthamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Growth America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson\u2019s expected bill would require that roads have adequate room for cyclists, pedestrians, construction workers and other non-motorists when painting lane lines and constructing new roads.\u00a0 However, Peterson says, \u201cwe know that not all streets are going to be able to follow the complete street guidelines.\u201d In those situations, state planners would be exempt from the law. \u201cWhat this bill would ask,\u201d Peterson says, \u201c is when it can\u2019t be done, say why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill won\u2019t require a fiscal note, Peterson says, so it won\u2019t cost the state more money. \u201cI think it\u2019s a bipartisan bill,\u201d she says, \u201cI think it\u2019s a win-win for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson is an avid cyclist who was inspired to sponsor the bill by her own frustrations with disappearing bike lanes. But, she says, it\u2019s not just cyclists who would benefit from wider shoulders and bike lanes. Construction workers and police, for example, are often put in danger when roads have inadequate shoulder room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As national cyclist and pedestrian deaths continue to climb, Complete Streets \u2013 the movement to make roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, public transit users and motorists \u2013 has an advocate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Conservative Representative Lenette Peterson of Merrimack, who lists \u2018getting handguns back in the state house,\u2019 among her policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,542],"tags":[461,462,437],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12941,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions\/12941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}