{"id":8606,"date":"2015-11-06T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:54:56","slug":"osu-named-a-gold-level-bicycle-friendly-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/11\/06\/osu-named-a-gold-level-bicycle-friendly-university\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Named a Gold-level Bicycle Friendly University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The League of American Bicyclists has just recently\u00a0recognized Oregon State University as a Gold-level Bicycle Friendly University. OSU is one of only 12 institutions that\u00a0have achieved this high level of honor.<\/p>\n<p>According to league standards, gold-level indicates that OSU has implemented bike projects, policies, and programs\u00a0to connect transportation and recreation throughout the community and that a strong commitment to cycling is demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/11\/Bicycle-Friendly-University-logo11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/11\/Bicycle-Friendly-University-logo11-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bicycle-Friendly-University-logo1\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/11\/Bicycle-Friendly-University-logo11-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/11\/Bicycle-Friendly-University-logo11.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OSU is one of 127 Bike Friendly Universities within the United States. The only level higher is platinum, which only five universities have achieved as of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Both the bike-friendly nature\u00a0within Corvallis and OSU&#8217;s easily accessible bike resources (such as covered and uncovered bike parking, bike lockers, bike fix-it stands, an on-campus bike shop, \u00a0a bike loan program, bicycle safety training, and bicycle registration services) \u00a0have helped Oregon State University\u00a0to receive this honor.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Bicycle Friendly Universities and the League of American Bicyclists, check out their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/university\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The League of American Bicyclists has just recently\u00a0recognized Oregon State University as a Gold-level Bicycle Friendly University. OSU is one of only 12 institutions that\u00a0have achieved this high level of honor. According to league standards, gold-level indicates that OSU has implemented bike projects, policies, and programs\u00a0to connect transportation and recreation throughout the community and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292116,1292117,1292111],"tags":[954,2427,707797,707798,184523],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-sustainability","category-community-sustainability","category-transportation","tag-award","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycle-friendly-university","tag-league-of-american-bicyclists","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}