{"id":3415,"date":"2010-04-09T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:09:59","slug":"red-white-and-green-commuter-transport-cycling-and-ghost-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/red-white-and-green-commuter-transport-cycling-and-ghost-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, White and Green Commuter Transport: cycling and ghost cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4247\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4247\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4247\" title=\"white_rage_bicycle_commuting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting.jpg\" alt=\"Red commuting produces white rage and dead cyclists\" width=\"775\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/white_rage_bicycle_commuting-624x407.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red commuting produces white rage and dead cyclists<\/p><\/div>\n<p> I am the enemy you killed, my friend.<br \/>\n I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned<br \/>\n Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.<br \/>\n I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.<br \/>\n Let us sleep now&#8230;&#8217;  (Wildrid Owen <em>Strange Meeting<\/em>)<br \/>\n <em>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jscolman\/30776443\/\">jscolman <\/a>&#8211; with added blood <\/em> See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostcycle.org\/\">Ghostcycle.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/another-reason-for-planning-cycletubes-in-urban-areas\/\">winter post on White Commuting<\/a> has led me to the following classification:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red Commuter Transport<\/span>: uses hydrocarbon energy to create air pollution, noise, dust, asthma and road rage<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\">White Commuter Transport<\/span>: white rage is what green commuters are driven to when most of the roadspace is allocated to red commuters<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green Commuter Transport<\/span>: uses human energy for quiet, health-giving environmentally friendly commuting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_4243\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4243\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"green_commuting_in_a_hot_country\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal green commuting in a hot country (Italy)\" width=\"775\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/green_commuting_in_a_hot_country-624x423.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perfect green bicycle commuting in a hot country (Italy)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. Let us sleep now&#8230;&#8217; (Wildrid Owen Strange Meeting) Image courtesy jscolman &#8211; with added blood See also: Ghostcycle.org My winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}