{"id":161883733,"date":"2010-02-17T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161883733"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:42:13","slug":"still-looking-for-that-magic-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161883733","title":{"rendered":"Still Looking for That Magic Highway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<br \/>\n[An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA.]<\/p>\n<div><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F6pUMlPBMQA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" \/><span title=\"Click to open in a new window\" class=\"link popout\">Popout<\/span> <\/div>\n<p>In his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanavent.com\/blog\/?p=2283\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first post<\/a> on the topic, Avent framed the problem this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every weekday, tens of millions of Americans get into vehicles that are<br \/>\nfull of passenger space which won\u2019t be used, with engines capable of<br \/>\nhorsepower and speeds that won\u2019t be attained, holding fuel tanks that<br \/>\ncould power the car for distances that won\u2019t be traveled. The result of<br \/>\nall this over-engineering is that cars cost way more than a vehicle for<br \/>\ndaily commuting need cost, and they consume way more energy than a<br \/>\nvehicle for daily commuting need consume. This all adds up to a<br \/>\nremarkable waste of resources, even before you begin talking about<br \/>\nthings like congestion. Why are we stuck in this wasteful equilibrium?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/17\/still-looking-for-that-magic-highway\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/17\/still-looking-for-that-magic-highway\/<\/a>oldId.20100217154213102<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; [An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA.] Popout In his first post on the topic, Avent framed the problem this way: Every weekday, tens of millions of Americans get into vehicles that are full of passenger space which won\u2019t be used, with engines capable of horsepower and speeds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161883733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still Looking for That Magic Highway?&#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-161883733","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\/161883733","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=161883733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161883733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161883733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161883733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161883733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}