
{"id":2686,"date":"2008-05-29T06:25:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2008-05-29T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T14:25:21","slug":"for-the-record-expensive-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/05\/29\/for-the-record-expensive-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Record: Expensive commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That cracking sound you may have heard just before the Memorial Day weekend was gas prices around here breaking the $4 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Right on the heels of that is news via Forbes that Raleigh commuters (we presume that means those of us who commute to and fro) face the second-worst commute in the country among small cities. To make matters worse, it compares things here to Atlanta and Dallas.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Drivers spend 35 hours a year in traffic, yet only 11% carpool and just 2% use public transit or walk. This makes for an efficiency rating not far off from congested \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and larger \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dallas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all who keep fighting public transit pull a muscle patting yourselves on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That cracking sound you may have heard just before the Memorial Day weekend was gas prices around here breaking the $4 mark. Right on the heels of that is news via Forbes that Raleigh commuters (we presume that means those of us who commute to and fro) face the second-worst commute in the country among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}