{"id":2851,"date":"2008-07-11T05:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:30:10","slug":"you-think-traffic-at-the-u-is-bad-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"You Think Traffic At the &#8220;U&#8221; Is Bad Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who always wondered &#8220;what if they could just swoop in and rip Washington Avenue out of the ground and toss it into space?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re gonna <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/07\/09\/uofmlightrail\/\">find out<\/a>!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has approved a key agreement on the Central Corridor light rail project&#8230;The project includes $11 million for a transit and pedestrian mall on Washington Ave. The costs will be included in the budget submitted to the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect they&#8217;ll find people sitting in traffic around the East Bank so long they&#8217;ll actually form settlements up and down Huron Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who always wondered &#8220;what if they could just swoop in and rip Washington Avenue out of the ground and toss it into space?&#8221; We&#8217;re gonna find out!: The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has approved a key agreement on the Central Corridor light rail project&#8230;The project includes $11 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}