{"id":2464,"date":"2005-07-05T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2018-02-17T17:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T23:25:39","slug":"someone-understands-mass-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/someone-understands-mass-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Understands Mass Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transportation columnist at the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> (transportation columnist?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/alongfortheride\/story\/CC13B668CE11B75B862570340031C6D2?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">compares light rail to buses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So for $550 million, here&#8217;s how many more buses Metro could have put on the road every day of the year for 16 hours a day: 241 new bus routes for five years; 120 bus routes for 10 years; 80 bus routes for 15 years; or 60 for 20 years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why does the government prefer light rail schemes to buses?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Metro says about half of the passengers who ride MetroLink make between $50,000 and $75,000 a year. Only 17 percent of bus riders make that much. In fact, more than half of them make less than $15,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transportation columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (transportation columnist?) compares light rail to buses: So for $550 million, here&#8217;s how many more buses Metro could have put on the road every day of the year for 16 hours a day: 241 new bus routes for five years; 120 bus routes for 10 years; 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19571,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/19571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}