{"id":76280,"date":"2012-06-20T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76280"},"modified":"2012-06-20T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:44:37","slug":"washington-dcs-capital-bikeshare-tax-for-rich-educated-white-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76280","title":{"rendered":"Washington, DC&#8217;s Capital Bikeshare: Tax $$$ for Rich, Educated, White Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/washington-dcs-capital-bikeshare-tax-for\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Capital Bikeshare, which rents bikes at more than 165 outdoor stations in the Washington D.C. area, serves highly educated and affluent whites.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that, of course, except that the program has received $16 million in government subsidies, including over $1 million specifically earmarked to &#8220;address the unique transportation challenges faced by welfare recipients and low-income persons seeking to obtain and maintain employment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, of course, we all know how much welfare recipients and low-income persons seeking to obtain and maintain employment desperately need rental bicycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. \u00a0Capital Bikeshare, which rents bikes at more than 165 outdoor stations in the Washington D.C. area, serves highly educated and affluent whites. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that, of course, except that the program has received $16 million in government subsidies, including over $1 million specifically earmarked to &#8220;address the unique transportation challenges faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76282,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76280\/revisions\/76282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}