{"id":285943932,"date":"2014-01-23T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=285943932"},"modified":"2014-01-23T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:52:12","slug":"ford-ceo-more-cars-in-cities-not-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=285943932","title":{"rendered":"Ford CEO: More Cars in Cities \u201cNot Going to Work\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt. Streets Blog<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI think the most important thing is to look at the way the world is and where the world is going and to develop a plan,\u201d Mulally said, according to the Financial Times. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see more and more larger cities. Personal mobility is going to be of really ever-increasing importance to livable lifestyles in big cities.\u201d<br \/>\nMulally said Ford has been trying to adapt to changing consumer preferences since the Great Recession. Americans have been trading giant SUVs for smaller cars. Young people have been purchasing fewer cars altogether, a phenomenon Mulally said might be reversed by cheaper cars.<br \/>\nBut he also said he wasn\u2019t sure what role Ford would play in the future of transportation in big cities. According to the Financial Times, Mulally said that adding more cars in urban environments is \u201cnot going to work\u201d and that he was interested in developments in \u201cpersonal mobility\u201d and \u201cquality of life.\u201d Then he seemed to indicate Ford is interested in getting into transit, car sharing, or other models that don\u2019t align with private car ownership.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2014\/01\/22\/ford-ceo-more-cars-in-cities-not-going-to-work\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2014\/01\/22\/ford-ceo-more-cars-in-cities-not-going-to-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt. Streets Blog &#8230; \u201cI think the most important thing is to look at the way the world is and where the world is going and to develop a plan,\u201d Mulally said, according to the Financial Times. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see more and more larger cities. Personal mobility is going to be of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=285943932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ford CEO: More Cars in Cities \u201cNot Going to Work\u201d&#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-285943932","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\/285943932","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=285943932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285943932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285943932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285943932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285943932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}