{"id":181486543,"date":"2010-10-02T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181486543"},"modified":"2010-10-02T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T12:55:43","slug":"how-flawed-formulas-lead-down-the-road-to-sprawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181486543","title":{"rendered":"How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help understand the issue in the linked article I will give the following analogy: Let&#8217;s us say you own a restaurant where the air quality is a problem due to smokers. Well the solution should be obvious&#8230; put in more tables for smokers and hire more staff to service smokers to get them in and out of the restaurant a lot faster and make the non-smokers wait as they don&#8217;t cause any problems hanging around.<br \/>\nSounds absurd right? But this is exactly the kind of thinking that drives the bulk of our transportation dollars. See the the link after the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2010\/09\/30\/how-flawed-outdated-formulas-lead-down-the-road-to-sprawl\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2010\/09\/30\/how-flawed-outdated-formulas-lead-down-the-road-to-sprawl<\/a><br \/>\nNOTE:<br \/>\nThe Travel Time Index is the ratio of travel time in the peak period to the travel time at free-flow conditions. A value of 1.35 indicates a 20 minute free-flow trip takes 27 minutes in the peak.oldId.20101002125543892<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help understand the issue in the linked article I will give the following analogy: Let&#8217;s us say you own a restaurant where the air quality is a problem due to smokers. Well the solution should be obvious&#8230; put in more tables for smokers and hire more staff to service smokers to get them in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181486543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181486543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181486543","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=181486543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181486543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181486543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181486543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181486543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}