{"id":244922982,"date":"2012-10-05T18:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244922982"},"modified":"2012-10-05T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:09:42","slug":"carmageddon-improved-los-angeles-air-quality-during-2011-freeway-closure-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244922982","title":{"rendered":"Carmageddon Improved Los Angeles Air Quality During 2011 Freeway Closure, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By James Gerken, The Huffington Post<br \/>\nOn the eve of &quot;Carmageddon II,&quot; researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that last year&#8217;s July 15-17 closure of Interstate 405 resulted in significant air quality improvements in the vicinity of the freeway.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe researchers also found that with an overall decrease in traffic across the Los Angeles area during the Carmageddon weekend, &quot;air quality &#8230; improved 75 percent in parts of West Los Angeles and Santa Monica and an average of 25 percent regionally \u2014 from Ventura to Yucaipa, and Long Beach to Santa Clarita.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYet the air quality improvements disappeared with the return of heavier traffic the next week&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/29\/carmageddon-los-angeles-air-quality_n_1925523.html?utm_hp_ref=green\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/29\/carmageddon-los-angeles-air-quality_n_1925523.html?utm_hp_ref=green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Gerken, The Huffington Post On the eve of &quot;Carmageddon II,&quot; researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that last year&#8217;s July 15-17 closure of Interstate 405 resulted in significant air quality improvements in the vicinity of the freeway. &#8230; The researchers also found that with an overall decrease in traffic across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=244922982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carmageddon Improved Los Angeles Air Quality During 2011 Freeway Closure, Study Shows&#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-244922982","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\/244922982","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=244922982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244922982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244922982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244922982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244922982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}