{"id":280947117,"date":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280947117"},"modified":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","slug":"could-baltimore-benefit-from-a-frequent-transit-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280947117","title":{"rendered":"Could Baltimore Benefit from a Frequent Transit Grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Marc Szarkowski, Envision Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>As a follow-up to the recent post on frequency mapping, I thought it&#8217;d be worthwhile to discuss the concept of a frequent transit grid. The MTA is currently soliciting ideas for the Bus Network Improvement Project, and the most common suggestions seem to be (1) improving schedule adherence by reducing bus stops, boarding times, traffic delays, and bus bunching, (2) improving service frequency, and (3) reducing overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>Not only could a frequent transit grid address many of these issues, but I think it&#8217;d serve as a sorely-needed update to the current \u201cradial\u201d transit network.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/envisionbaltimore.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/frequent-transit-grid-baltimore.html\">https:\/\/envisionbaltimore.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/frequent-transit-grid-baltimore.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marc Szarkowski, Envision Baltimore As a follow-up to the recent post on frequency mapping, I thought it&#8217;d be worthwhile to discuss the concept of a frequent transit grid. The MTA is currently soliciting ideas for the Bus Network Improvement Project, and the most common suggestions seem to be (1) improving schedule adherence by reducing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=280947117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could Baltimore Benefit from a Frequent Transit Grid?&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280947117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280947117","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=280947117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280947117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280947117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280947117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280947117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}