{"id":221081415,"date":"2012-01-03T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=221081415"},"modified":"2012-01-03T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:30:15","slug":"why-is-the-icc-so-empty-how-long-will-it-stay-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=221081415","title":{"rendered":"Why is the ICC so empty? How long will it stay that way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Greater Greater Washington by Ben Ross<br \/>\nTravelers on Maryland&#8217;s newly-opened Intercounty Connector (ICC) highway see a road that seems empty and overbuilt. Yet the Maryland Transportation Authority, which runs the road, says that traffic is slightly heavier than forecast. Can both be right?<br \/>\nYes, they can.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut the state&#8217;s forecast also assumes that gas will cost $2.50 a gallon, adjusted for future inflation. If instead, gas costs $10 a gallon in 2030, traffic on the ICC is projected to be about 40% below the $2.50\/gallon forecast.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing at all wrong with building for the future. The planners of Metro thought big, and we are all better off as a result. The question about the ICC is whether it was built for the future, or for a past age of cheap gasoline and sprawl that is gone forever.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=13216\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=13216<\/a>oldId.20120103193015784<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Greater Greater Washington by Ben Ross Travelers on Maryland&#8217;s newly-opened Intercounty Connector (ICC) highway see a road that seems empty and overbuilt. Yet the Maryland Transportation Authority, which runs the road, says that traffic is slightly heavier than forecast. Can both be right? Yes, they can. &#8230; But the state&#8217;s forecast also assumes that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=221081415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is the ICC so empty? How long will it stay that way?&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221081415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081415","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=221081415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221081415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221081415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221081415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}