{"id":92578924,"date":"2007-12-08T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=92578924"},"modified":"2007-12-08T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T12:22:04","slug":"money-for-education-more-school-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=92578924","title":{"rendered":"Money for education =&gt; More School Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;We must change development patterns to build more walkable communities closer to schools,&#8221; said 1000 Friends of Maryland Executive Director Dru Schmidt-Perkins, releasing the group&#8217;s Yellow School Bus Blues report on just one &#8221;hidden cost&#8221; of recent sprawl practices statewide, which shows that total school fleet trips in the state&#8217;s 23 counties have increased between 1992 and 2006 by 23 million miles to 117.2 million, and that combined county busing expenditures have risen from $215 million to $436 million.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBusing Costs Soar as Sprawl Separates Schools from Communities<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartgrowth.org\/news\/article.asp?art=6328&amp;state=21&amp;res=1440\">https:\/\/www.smartgrowth.org\/news\/article.asp?art=6328&amp;state=21&amp;res=1440<\/a><br \/>\nPro Bus<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stnonline.com\/stn\/contractors\/thomas.htm\">https:\/\/stnonline.com\/stn\/contractors\/thomas.htm<\/a>oldId.20071208122204599<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;We must change development patterns to build more walkable communities closer to schools,&#8221; said 1000 Friends of Maryland Executive Director Dru Schmidt-Perkins, releasing the group&#8217;s Yellow School Bus Blues report on just one &#8221;hidden cost&#8221; of recent sprawl practices statewide, which shows that total school fleet trips in the state&#8217;s 23 counties have increased between &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=92578924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money for education =&gt; More School Buses&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92578924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92578924","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=92578924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92578924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92578924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92578924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92578924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}