{"id":119646090,"date":"2008-10-16T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119646090"},"modified":"2008-10-16T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:01:30","slug":"chicago-il-drivers-drive-less-roads-still-congested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119646090","title":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (IL) DRIVERS DRIVE LESS, ROADS STILL CONGESTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Oct. 13th Tribune article, &quot;Despite increased fuel prices, gridlock is still a problem, but more people may be working at home or traveling at non-peak times, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning researcher says. Motorists in the Chicago area are making fewer trips to gas stations, but highways are still severely congested despite a decline of almost 5 percent in miles driven this year.<br \/>\n&quot;Congestion in the region is actually worse now than a year ago. Drivers hoping to reach their destinations on schedule need to budget almost double the amount of travel time that the trips should take&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n[Just to note that parents driving their kids to school has been shown to be as high as 21% of rush hour traffic. I&#8217;ll assert the impact of this behavior could explain this problem.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3hfaqe\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3hfaqe<\/a>oldId.20081016190130668<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Oct. 13th Tribune article, &quot;Despite increased fuel prices, gridlock is still a problem, but more people may be working at home or traveling at non-peak times, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning researcher says. Motorists in the Chicago area are making fewer trips to gas stations, but highways are still severely congested despite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=119646090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHICAGO (IL) DRIVERS DRIVE LESS, ROADS STILL CONGESTED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119646090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119646090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119646090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119646090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119646090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119646090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119646090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}