{"id":255179472,"date":"2013-02-01T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=255179472"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:11:12","slug":"the-diminishing-returns-of-highway-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=255179472","title":{"rendered":"The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<p>Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Levinson at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/levin031\/transportationist\/2013\/01\/transportation-benefits-too-li.html\">Transportationist<\/a>&nbsp;presents some interesting explanations about why so much American road building is a poor use of funds:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 422px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Picture-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23455\" title=\"Picture 3\" src=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Picture-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image, the black lines represent roads and the blue dotted line represents a traveler. At some point, adding additional roads is subject to diminishing returns, saving people less time per dollar invested. Image: David Levinson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are not building much new transportation in the US not just because the costs are too high, but because the benefits are too low.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2013\/01\/10\/the-diminishing-returns-of-highway-building\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2013\/01\/10\/the-diminishing-returns-of-highway-building\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Levinson at the&nbsp;Transportationist&nbsp;presents some interesting explanations about why so much American road building is a poor use of funds: In this image, the black lines represent roads and the blue dotted line represents a traveler. At some point, adding additional roads is subject to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=255179472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Diminishing Returns of Highway Building&#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-255179472","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\/255179472","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=255179472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255179472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255179472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255179472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255179472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}