{"id":309473009,"date":"2014-10-22T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309473009"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:43:29","slug":"its-happening-washington-state-revises-traffic-forecasts-to-reflect-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309473009","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Happening: Washington State Revises Traffic Forecasts to Reflect Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157453\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Washington-State-Transportation-Revenue-Forecast-Council-Peak-Traffic-563x404.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-157453\" alt=\"Washington State has revised traffic projections downward, to reflect changing patterns. Image: Washington State via Sightline\" src=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Washington-State-Transportation-Revenue-Forecast-Council-Peak-Traffic-563x404.png\" width=\"507\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington State Office of Fiscal Management has revised its traffic projections downward to reflect changing patterns. Graph Washington OFM via <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.sightline.org\/2014\/10\/21\/washington-state-traffic-forecast-finally-recognizes-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sightline<\/a>&nbsp;<span class=\"wrc_icon wrc13\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The amount that the average American drives each year has been <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/05\/28\/while-the-economy-grows-americans-continue-to-drive-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declining for nearly a decade<\/a>, yet most transportation agencies are still making decisions based on the notion that a new era of ceaseless traffic growth is right around the corner<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/10\/21\/its-happening-washington-dot-revises-traffic-projections-to-reflect-reality\/\">https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/10\/21\/its-happening-washington-dot-revises-traffic-projections-to-reflect-reality\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog The Washington State Office of Fiscal Management has revised its traffic projections downward to reflect changing patterns. Graph Washington OFM via Sightline&nbsp; The amount that the average American drives each year has been declining for nearly a decade, yet most transportation agencies are still making decisions based on the notion &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=309473009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s Happening: Washington State Revises Traffic Forecasts to Reflect Reality&#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-309473009","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\/309473009","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=309473009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309473009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309473009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309473009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309473009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}