{"id":14697,"date":"2018-03-11T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14697"},"modified":"2018-03-11T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T21:00:15","slug":"sending-love-cards-to-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/11\/sending-love-cards-to-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending Love Cards To Your Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you love – I mean really love – your car, then you won’t like this piece<\/a> by Lloyd Alter on Treehugger<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

It seems that most transit decisions in North America are made with the goal of making life easier for people in cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In North America, transit planning is a mess. Decisions like building a hyperloop from Cleveland to Chicago or a one-stop subway extension in Toronto in the face of sound transit planning by experts that say these decisions are ridiculous. In New York City, they arrest people for fare-jumping but let them park cars for free for months; in Toronto again (my home is in the news a lot these days)\u00a0they beat up kids over a two buck ticket.
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In Munich, you see what happens with sound planning and good transit. I am staying in the suburbs near a massive new residential and commercial development, with a lovely streetcar right outside the door of my hotel. It stops about six times on the way to the other end of the line at a subway stop.<\/p>\n

I have been on this streetcar a number of times, looking out the window at the stores and buildings on either side. You can do that on a streetcar; you are on the surface, a step from grade, so if you want to get off and buy something you can. There are housing, offices and retail on either side; unlike subways with stations far apart, the development isn’t just at nodes but along the entire route.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s how you keep the car makers, some of our biggest employers, and alive and kicking, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you love – I mean really love – your car, then you won’t like this piece by Lloyd Alter on Treehugger: It seems that most transit decisions in North America are made with the goal of making life easier for people in cars. In North America, transit planning is \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}