{"id":16325,"date":"2015-11-18T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/despacio.org\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:13:50","slug":"despacio-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/2015\/11\/18\/despacio-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Despacio in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bogota remains an inspirational and informative example of how investments in sustainable mobility can improve the quality-of-life, and people around the world are keen to see what projects the city delivers in the coming years,&#8221; says Chris Morfas, Senior Advisor to Despacio.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Chris\u00a0spoke\u00a0to transit, bicycling, and walking planners and advocates at three gatherings in\u00a0the United States. He presented at\u00a0the international perspectives panel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nacto.org\/designingcities2015\/\">Designing Cities 2015\u00a0<\/a>conference in Austin, Texas, hosted by the National Association of City Transportation Officials (<a href=\"http:\/\/nacto.org\/\">NACTO<\/a>). Click here to see\u00a0Chris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/nacto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chris-Morfas-Despacio_Report-from-Bogota-sm.pdf\">presentation<\/a> at NACTO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16328\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_9913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16328\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16328\" src=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_9913.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Morfas presenting at NACTO 2015\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Morfas presenting at NACTO 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris also spoke with\u00a0bike enthusiasts in San Diego, CA, and bus rapid transit proponents in Chicago, IL, taking some photos while he was at it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16327\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16327\" class=\"wp-image-16327 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0103-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago bike lane\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bike lane adjacent to a BRT station (under construction) in downtown Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16329\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_9941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16329\" class=\"wp-image-16329 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/despacio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_9941-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two-way cycle track in Austin, TX\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two-way cycle track in Austin, TX<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bogota remains an inspirational and informative example of how investments in sustainable mobility can improve the quality-of-life, and people around the world are keen to see what projects the city delivers in the coming years,&#8221; says Chris Morfas, Senior Advisor to Despacio. Last month, Chris\u00a0spoke\u00a0to transit, bicycling, and walking planners and advocates at three gatherings&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}