{"id":173629340,"date":"2010-07-03T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173629340"},"modified":"2010-07-03T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:22:20","slug":"cars-cause-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173629340","title":{"rendered":"Cars Cause Congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Komanoff found that every car entering the CBD causes an average of 3.23 person-hours of delays. Multiply that by $39.53\u2014a weighted average of vehicles\u2019 time value within and outside the CBD\u2014and it turns out that the average weekday vehicle journey costs other New Yorkers $128 in lost time.<br \/>\n    He translates all traffic impacts\u2014delays, collisions, injuries, air pollution\u2014into dollars and cents; that way, it\u2019s easy for users to compare the benefits and costs of different plans. He has even come up with a plan of his own that would, according to his calculations, collect $1.3 billion in motorist tolls per year\u2014all of which would be spent on improving public transit\u2014and save $2.5 billion in time costs by reducing delays. To that, add $190 million from decreased mortality as a result of making streets more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly, $83 million in collision damage reduction, and $34 million in lower CO2 emissions.<br \/>\n    he produced a detailed statistical analysis of pedestrian and cyclist deaths\u2014it showed that casualties are not random, unpredictable accidents but the foreseeable result of given traffic conditions.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/05\/ff_komanoff_traffic\/3\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/05\/ff_komanoff_traffic\/3\/<\/a>oldId.20100703142220828<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komanoff found that every car entering the CBD causes an average of 3.23 person-hours of delays. Multiply that by $39.53\u2014a weighted average of vehicles\u2019 time value within and outside the CBD\u2014and it turns out that the average weekday vehicle journey costs other New Yorkers $128 in lost time. He translates all traffic impacts\u2014delays, collisions, injuries, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173629340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cars Cause Congestion&#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-173629340","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\/173629340","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=173629340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173629340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173629340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173629340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173629340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}