{"id":263998250,"date":"2013-05-14T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263998250"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:50:50","slug":"who-should-pay-for-transportation-infrastructure-what-is-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263998250","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Pay for Transportation Infrastructure? What is Fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by TODD LITMAN, Planetizen<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe root of the problem is that automobile transportation is costly &#8211; more costly in total than other modes. Motorists spend, on average, about 18% of their income on their vehicles and fuel, and about 10% of their housing costs for residential parking. This heavy cost burden makes motorists selfish; they often argue that somebody else should bear the costs of road and parking facilities in order to make driving affordable, and that no transportation funds should be &quot;diverted&quot; to support other modes. As a result, alternatives are underfunded: although 10-15% of urban trips are made by walking and cycling, non-motorized modes only receive 1-3% of total transportation funding, and far less if parking facility costs are also considered. A better solution than increasing subsidies for driving is to invest more in affordable modes, particularly walking and cycling facilities, in order to reduce total transport costs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/62128\">https:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/62128<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by TODD LITMAN, Planetizen &#8230; The root of the problem is that automobile transportation is costly &#8211; more costly in total than other modes. Motorists spend, on average, about 18% of their income on their vehicles and fuel, and about 10% of their housing costs for residential parking. This heavy cost burden makes motorists selfish; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=263998250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Should Pay for Transportation Infrastructure? What is Fair?&#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-263998250","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\/263998250","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=263998250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263998250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263998250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263998250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263998250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}