{"id":25343,"date":"2018-01-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25343"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:06:55","slug":"city-of-clarksville-considering-a-bike-walk-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/01\/18\/city-of-clarksville-considering-a-bike-walk-advocacy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Clarksville considering a Bike\/Walk Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clarksville Parks and Recreation invites community to February 20th meeting.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-299103\" title=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Clarksville-Parks-and-Recreation-Department.jpg\" alt=\"Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department\" width=\"240\" height=\"96\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The success of Clarksville Parks and Recreation\u2019s BCycle bike-sharing program has inspired interest in creating an organization to promote a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly community.<\/p>\n<p>Like-minded local residents, businesses, clubs and agencies are invited to meet at 6:00pm February 20th, 2018 at Liberty Park\u2019s Freedom Point to discuss forming a bicycle and pedestrian advocacy group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_395877\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Clarksville-BCycle.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395877\" title=\"Guided BCycle bike rides will show off Downtown Clarksville.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Clarksville-BCycle-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Guided BCycle bike rides will show off Downtown Clarksville.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-395877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guided BCycle bike rides will show off Downtown Clarksville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe popularity of the BCycle program in Clarksville since its launch two years ago has been incredible, and we have a high volume of walkers and runners who use City parks and trails,\u201d said Jennifer Letourneau, Director of Clarksville Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan said the usage data indicates biking, walking and running are priorities for City residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s apparent many residents value opportunities to bike and walk safely,\u201d Mayor McMillan said. So we are excited about exploring the idea of a bike\/walk advocacy group for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citizens interested in attending the February 20th meeting are asked to register and complete a brief survey available at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clarksville.bcycle.com\" >https:\/\/clarksville.bcycle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey will help set the agenda for the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the meeting or Clarksville BCycle, please contact Clarksville Parks and Recreation at 931.645.7476 or <a href=\"mailto:bcycle@cityofclarksville.com\">bcycle@cityofclarksville.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville Parks and Recreation invites community to February 20th meeting. Clarksville, TN &#8211; The success of Clarksville Parks and Recreation\u2019s BCycle bike-sharing program has inspired interest in creating an organization to promote a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly community. Like-minded local residents, businesses, clubs and agencies are invited to meet at 6:00pm February 20th, 2018 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[31027,1759,878,881,825,30287,693,7875,16001],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6AL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25344,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343\/revisions\/25344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}