{"id":629,"date":"2017-12-04T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=629"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:57:08","slug":"good-roads-for-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Good roads for some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Route 66, about a mile from here, this morning started charging tolls during rush hour for vehicles not meeting HOV requirements (currently driver plus one, but soon to be driver plus two).\u00a0 The price for the 10-mile trip from the Beltway to the bridge into Washington, DC, cost $34.50 at 8:40 a.m.\u00a0 For much of the morning rush it cost $28.50.\u00a0 According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, traffic averaged 57 m.p.h. &#8212; compared to the average 37 m.p.h. previously.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s not hard to see who&#8217;s going to benefit from these new tolls &#8212; people who can afford to dish out $34\u00a0 to run the 10 miles three or four minutes faster than people who can&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route 66, about a mile from here, this morning started charging tolls during rush hour for vehicles not meeting HOV requirements (currently driver plus one, but soon to be driver plus two).\u00a0 The price for the 10-mile trip from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}