{"id":228515984,"date":"2012-03-29T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228515984"},"modified":"2012-03-29T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:39:44","slug":"goodbye-ways-the-downfall-of-urban-freeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228515984","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye-ways: The downfall of urban freeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Hanscom, Grist<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cCities are not removing all highways because of a sudden awakening of environmental consciousness or realization that car culture is bad,\u201d the report says. Instead, they\u2019re doing it because they can\u2019t afford to keep aging freeways from crumbling, and they\u2019re realizing that the space these roads take up is a hell of a lot more valuable, both socially and economically, when it\u2019s used for houses, businesses, and parks. And then there\u2019s the raft of studies showing that freeways don\u2019t relieve traffic congestion \u2014 they actually make it worse.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/goodbye-ways-the-downfall-of-urban-freeways\/\">https:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/goodbye-ways-the-downfall-of-urban-freeways\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Hanscom, Grist &#8230; \u201cCities are not removing all highways because of a sudden awakening of environmental consciousness or realization that car culture is bad,\u201d the report says. Instead, they\u2019re doing it because they can\u2019t afford to keep aging freeways from crumbling, and they\u2019re realizing that the space these roads take up is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228515984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye-ways: The downfall of urban freeways&#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-228515984","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\/228515984","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=228515984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228515984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228515984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228515984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228515984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}