{"id":196279,"date":"2008-05-11T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/11\/transit-update\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:10:00","slug":"transit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/11\/transit-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a surge of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/10\/business\/10transit.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;adxnnlx=1210431677-lkTmdVCvKeAuUQM\/R12B9w\">people moving to mass transit<\/a> driven by higher gas prices, though I have to say that after 60 years of direct and indirect subsidies to the &#8220;own a car&#8221; lifestyle, this will either be a short term change, or a part of a slow change.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the City of San Francisco has come up with an interesting idea,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2008\/05\/06\/san-francisco-launches-ambitious-parking-reform-program\/#more-3821\"> congestion pricing on parking meters<\/a>, the theory being that if you price the meters high enough that there are always a few open, you eliminate the people driving around and around looking for parking, and reduce congestion, in addition to reducing the total number of drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a surge of people moving to mass transit driven by higher gas prices, though I have to say that after 60 years of direct and indirect subsidies to the &#8220;own a car&#8221; lifestyle, this will either be a short term change, or a part of a slow change. That being said, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}