{"id":30852,"date":"2016-10-07T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lights-the-way-in-poland"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:48","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lights-the-way-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lights-the-way-in-poland","title":{"rendered":"Glow-in-the-dark bike path lights the way in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lights-the-way-in-poland.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Studio Roosegaarde created a <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/van-gogh-roosegaarde-cycle-path\/34744\/\" target=\"_blank\">glow-in-the-dark bike path<\/a> in Eindhoven, Netherlands, helping to light the route in a exciting way. Inspired by that, a materials technology center in Lidzbark Warminski, Poland, has followed suit, with equally dazzling results.<\/p>\n<p>The materials tech center, TPA Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Qualit\u00e4tssicherung und Innovation (TPAQI), tells New Atlas that it first drew attention to the Eindhoven bike path at a local road forum event. The underlying concept was floated as a potential option for creating something that would reflect the beauty of the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Work began about a year ago, with lab tests into how the glowing effect would be created. A variety of different materials and colors were tested, with the aim of creating something that would both look great and that would increase safety for cyclists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tpaqi-glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lidzbark-warminski-poland\/45820\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tpaqi-glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-lidzbar...and\/45820\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, Studio Roosegaarde created a glow-in-the-dark bike path in Eindhoven, Netherlands, helping to light the route in a exciting way. Inspired by that, a materials technology center in Lidzbark Warminski, Poland, has followed suit, with equally dazzling results. The materials tech center, TPA Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Qualit\u00e4tssicherung und Innovation (TPAQI), tells New Atlas that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66057,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/66057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}