{"id":217543742,"date":"2011-11-23T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217543742"},"modified":"2011-11-23T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:49:02","slug":"the-high-cost-of-cheap-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217543742","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Cheap Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Angie Schmitt<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to a recent article in Gizmodo, it didn\u2019t have to be this way. Writer Rachel Swaby says America\u2019s predicament has its roots in a fateful decision made more than 50 years ago: to pour asphalt over packed dirt rather than concrete.<br \/>\nThis made roads cheap to build \u2014 encouraging the proliferation of car transportation and freight trucking. But it also made roads very expensive to maintain.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/11\/16\/the-high-cost-of-cheap-roads\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2011\/11\/16\/the-high-cost-of-cheap-roads\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Angie Schmitt &#8230; According to a recent article in Gizmodo, it didn\u2019t have to be this way. Writer Rachel Swaby says America\u2019s predicament has its roots in a fateful decision made more than 50 years ago: to pour asphalt over packed dirt rather than concrete. This made roads cheap to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217543742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The High Cost of Cheap Roads&#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-217543742","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\/217543742","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=217543742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217543742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217543742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217543742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217543742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}