{"id":41369,"date":"2014-01-26T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41369"},"modified":"2014-01-25T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:11:28","slug":"doakes-sunday-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41369","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>I saw the article in the pie-pan (Pioneer Press) about the new bicycle boondoggle.\u00a0 The estimate for the loop downtown is $18 million.\u00a0 Which means the true estimate that they had is $30 million, and the actual cost will be $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>The story quotes the City of St. Paul\u2019s Sustainable-Transportation Engineer and also the Environmental Policy Director.\u00a0 St Paul only has two\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">director-level<\/span>\u00a0positions for bicycle ideas.\u00a0 Now that, truly, is a bare-bones operation.<\/p>\n<p>If only the wicked Republicans would give St. Paul more LGA, then they could plow the streets.\u00a0 Meanwhile, what can we do with the cupboards being bare and the offices empty.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love biking to work.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish government spent less time and money making sure tax-paying drivers hated me while I was riding down the street (that I already paid for).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I saw the article in the pie-pan (Pioneer Press) about the new bicycle boondoggle.\u00a0 The estimate for the loop downtown is $18 million.\u00a0 Which means the true estimate that they had is $30 million, and the actual cost will be $45 million. The story quotes the City of St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369","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=41369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41369\/revisions\/41401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}