{"id":5478,"date":"2013-10-25T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2013-10-25T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:44:42","slug":"in-almost-every-european-country-bikes-are-outselling-new-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/10\/24\/240493422\/in-most-every-european-country-bikes-are-outselling-cars\">Krishnadev Calamur<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We know that Europeans love their bicycles \u2014 think Amsterdam or Paris. Denmark even has highways specifically for cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, earlier this month, NPR&#8217;s Lauren Frayer reported that Spain, which has long had a love affair with cars, is embracing the bicycle: For the first time on record, Lauren noted, bicycles outsold cars in the country.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s becoming a Continent-wide phenomenon. More bikes were sold in Italy than cars \u2014 for the first time since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted us to look at the figures across the 27 member states of the European Union for both cars and bicycles. New-car registrations for Cyprus and Malta weren&#8217;t available, so we took them out of the comparison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishnadev Calamur: We know that Europeans love their bicycles \u2014 think Amsterdam or Paris. Denmark even has highways specifically for cyclists. Indeed, earlier this month, NPR&#8217;s Lauren Frayer reported that Spain, which has long had a love affair with cars, is embracing the bicycle: For the first time on record, Lauren noted, bicycles outsold cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}