{"id":401117399,"date":"2017-09-17T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T13:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=401117399"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T13:29:59","slug":"everyone-knows-we-have-a-traffic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=401117399","title":{"rendered":"EVERYONE KNOWS WE HAVE A TRAFFIC PROBLEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY DANIEL HERRIGES, Strong Towns<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis dynamic should be familiar. If you&#8217;ve waded into local politics around growth and development almost anywhere, &#8220;traffic&#8221; is a drum that citizen activists love to beat. It makes sense: traffic is one of the most visible aspects of quality of life that local government is in a position to affect for better or worse. It matters.<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s talk about traffic.  It&#8217;s a truism that people in every city believe they have a traffic problem (just like everyone believes they don&#8217;t have enough parking). But for all the talk of traffic problems down here, I&#8217;ve heard comparatively few viable solutions, and I suspect part of that is because we so rarely bother to really define the problem.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2017\/3\/16\/everyone-knows-we-have-a-traffic-problem<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: A lot of good points in here, amazing what can be gleaned from just defining the problem. ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY DANIEL HERRIGES, Strong Towns &#8230; This dynamic should be familiar. If you&#8217;ve waded into local politics around growth and development almost anywhere, &#8220;traffic&#8221; is a drum that citizen activists love to beat. It makes sense: traffic is one of the most visible aspects of quality of life that local government is in a position &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=401117399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EVERYONE KNOWS WE HAVE A TRAFFIC PROBLEM&#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-401117399","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\/401117399","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=401117399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401117399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401117399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401117399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401117399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}