{"id":316491110,"date":"2015-01-12T02:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316491110"},"modified":"2015-01-12T02:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:11:50","slug":"the-feds-quietly-acknowledge-the-driving-boom-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316491110","title":{"rendered":"The Feds Quietly Acknowledge the Driving Boom Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Phineas Baxandall, Streets blog<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DOT_forecasts.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some states, like Washington and Maryland, have begun to ratchet down their forecasts of future VMT.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2015\/01\/07\/the-feds-quietly-acknowledge-the-driving-boom-is-over\/\">https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2015\/01\/07\/the-feds-quietly-acknowledge-the-driving-boom-is-over\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: While true I have seen words in some annual report that MDOT is no longer making predictions as Vehicle Miles Traveled has leveled off since 2005. but as a friend pointed out, just look at the new road projects and there are the wild traffic predictions. And I will assert these wild predictions are keeping the state from making much progress in accommodating bicyclists.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Phineas Baxandall, Streets blog &#8230; Some states, like Washington and Maryland, have begun to ratchet down their forecasts of future VMT. &#8230; https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2015\/01\/07\/the-feds-quietly-acknowledge-the-driving-boom-is-over\/ [B&#8217; Spokes: While true I have seen words in some annual report that MDOT is no longer making predictions as Vehicle Miles Traveled has leveled off since 2005. but as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=316491110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Feds Quietly Acknowledge the Driving Boom Is Over&#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-316491110","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\/316491110","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=316491110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316491110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316491110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316491110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316491110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}