{"id":39020,"date":"2013-10-15T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39020"},"modified":"2013-10-15T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:46:53","slug":"whos-in-a-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39020","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s In A Traffic Jam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mn\/DOT says more lanes won\u2019t reduce congestion on I-94 between St. Cloud and the Twin Cities.\u00a0 Instead, more lanes will dump people at the choke points faster.\u00a0 And why are there choke points?\u00a0 Because Met Council doesn\u2019t like highways, they like light rail, so they\u2019re not willing to build highway lanes in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Most telling explanation why they won\u2019t build more lanes:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_24301527\/experts-more-i-94-lanes-not-best-congestion\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s out of vogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ve vill tell you vhen you kan go und how you vill get zhere, und you vill like it.\u00a0\u00a0Or else!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like an Abbott and Costello routine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Mn\/DOT says more lanes won\u2019t reduce congestion on I-94 between St. Cloud and the Twin Cities.\u00a0 Instead, more lanes will dump people at the choke points faster.\u00a0 And why are there choke points?\u00a0 Because Met Council doesn\u2019t like highways, they like light rail, so they\u2019re not willing to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020","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=39020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39022,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions\/39022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}