{"id":704,"date":"2007-04-11T04:49:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/11\/all-the-road-rage\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T22:11:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T04:11:39","slug":"all-the-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"All The Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the DFL’s latest attempt to fan tax-hiking hysteria about tranportation (by way of ginning up bogus support for a potemkin “Transit” system), comes word that…<\/p>\n

…congestion is easing<\/a>?<\/p>\n

…yesterday the Minnesota Department of Transportation issued a press release<\/font><\/a> with this headline: \u201cTwin Cities-area congestion decreases for third year in a row.\u201d MnDOT says additional lanes on stretches of Hwys. 100, 394 and 494, as well as on I-94 just east of St. Paul, have helped reduce the number of \u201ccongested miles\u201d from 277 to 267. (A congested mile is defined as a mile of traffic moving slower than 45 miles per hour.) The next round of construction (Crosstown, anyone?) means that \u201cthere could be a rise in congestion rates\u201d between now and when the projects are completed, Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau<\/strong> says. But the hope is that the long-term gain will be worth the pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The source – the Strib’s “Roadguy” blog – is asking for reader feedback about congestion around the metro.<\/p>\n

I’m blessedly removed from the issue; after almost a decade and a half of commuting from Saint Paul to places like Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, Minnetonka and Maple Grove, I’m actually bussing downtown – almost literally a door-to-door commute of 20 minutes these days.<\/p>\n

Still, it seemed to me that either the process of blasting my way out to the western ‘burbs and back was getting easier in the past few years, or I was getting more patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the DFL’s latest attempt to fan tax-hiking hysteria about tranportation (by way of ginning up bogus support for a potemkin “Transit” system), comes word that… …congestion is easing? …yesterday the Minnesota Department of Transportation issued a press release with this headline: \u201cTwin Cities-area congestion decreases for third year in a row.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}