{"id":492230,"date":"2018-06-29T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=458300e813a904dc4651aa4ab5ef21a1"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:00:46","slug":"share-bikes-dont-get-cars-off-the-road-but-they-have-other-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=492230","title":{"rendered":"Share bikes don&#8217;t get cars off the road, but they have other benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many remedies have been put in place to cope with population increase \u2013 one of which is encouraging more people to commute using bicycles. After the operator of bike-sharing scheme oBike recently made the call to leave Melbourne, Fairfax columnist Matt Holden wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame really. Our roads are jammed with single-occupant cars and our public transport system is bursting at the seams: Melbourne is crying out for innovative solutions to the problem of moving people around. The oBikes could have been one of them; but it seems neither we, nor the company, were ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many remedies have been put in place to cope with population increase &ndash; one of which is encouraging more people to commute using bicycles. After the operator of bike-sharing scheme oBike recently made the call to leave Melbourne, Fairfax columnist Matt Holden wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame really. Our roads are jammed with single-occupant cars and our public transport system is bursting at the seams: Melbourne is crying out for innovative solutions to the problem of moving people around. The oBikes could have been one of them; but it seems neither we, nor the company, were ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492231,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492230\/revisions\/492231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}