{"id":2883,"date":"2007-05-13T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2007-05-13T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T10:44:28","slug":"i-80_inverse_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"I-80: Inverse Traffic Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/i80jz.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" border=\"1\"><br \/>I read with interest <a href=\"http:\/\/bairbresine52.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/10\/\u201ci-wish-i-could-stand-on-a-busy-street-corner-hat-in-hand-and-beg-people-to-throw-me-all-their-wasted-hours\u201d-bernard-berenson-quotes-american-art-critic-1865-1959\/\">two recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mononadoug.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/this-is-driving-me-nuts.html\">posts<\/a> regarding Madison&#8217;s traffic congestion.   I, too have a fleeting moment or two when I consider Madison&#8217;s growing traffic congestion.  It is difficult to use the words &#8220;Madison&#8221; together with &#8220;traffic congestion&#8221; after one has experienced the real, big city version.   The photo above was taken recently while stuck in traffic on I-80.  We&#8217;re a long way from that.   Regional growth certainly makes our transportation system a rather useful topic for discussion and action.  My dream?   <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=tgv\">TGV<\/a> type train service connecting Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/i80jz.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" border=\"1\"><br \/>I read with interest <a href=\"http:\/\/bairbresine52.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/10\/\u201ci-wish-i-could-stand-on-a-busy-street-corner-hat-in-hand-and-beg-people-to-throw-me-all-their-wasted-hours\u201d-bernard-berenson-quotes-american-art-critic-1865-1959\/\">two recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mononadoug.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/this-is-driving-me-nuts.html\">posts<\/a> regarding Madison&#8217;s traffic congestion.   I, too have a fleeting moment or two when I consider Madison&#8217;s growing traffic congestion.  It is difficult to use the words &#8220;Madison&#8221; together with &#8220;traffic congestion&#8221; after one has experienced the real, big city version.   The photo above was taken recently while stuck in traffic on I-80.  We&#8217;re a long way from that.   Regional growth certainly makes our transportation system a rather useful topic for discussion and action.  My dream?   <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=tgv\">TGV<\/a> type train service connecting Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,9,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}