{"id":216067727,"date":"2011-11-06T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216067727"},"modified":"2011-11-06T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:48:47","slug":"aaa-puts-annual-cost-of-area-crashes-at-4-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216067727","title":{"rendered":"AAA puts annual cost of area crashes at $4.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Something to think about, be part of the problem or part of the solution. Biking can reduce congestion as well as crashes.]<br \/>\n***************************************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nHighlights from Getting There by Michael Dresser<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That year the cost of congestion was $98 billion in the U.S. and $2 billion in Maryland, according to AAA. The study found that the cost of crashes exceeded that of congestion in each of the 99 metropolitan areas in the study &#8212; whether large or small.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;AAA estimated that the crash losses amounted to $1,627 for each person in the Baltimore region, compared with $810 for congestion.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2011\/11\/aaa_puts_annual_cost_of_area_c.html\">https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2011\/11\/aaa_puts_annual_cost_of_area_c.html<\/a>oldId.20111106184847543<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Something to think about, be part of the problem or part of the solution. Biking can reduce congestion as well as crashes.] *************************************************************************************************************************************************** Highlights from Getting There by Michael Dresser &quot;That year the cost of congestion was $98 billion in the U.S. and $2 billion in Maryland, according to AAA. The study found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216067727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AAA puts annual cost of area crashes at $4.4 billion&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216067727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216067727","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=216067727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216067727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216067727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216067727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216067727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}