{"id":563,"date":"2024-06-08T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","slug":"congestion-pricing-a-good-idea-died-because-our-government-doesnt-deserve-the-money-very-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/congestion-pricing-a-good-idea-died-because-our-government-doesnt-deserve-the-money-very-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCongestion Pricing, A Good Idea, Died Because Our Government Doesn\u2019t Deserve the Money\u201d &#8211; Very Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBut then, who\u2019s counting? New York mega-projects always take way too long and cost way too much. At least, now that it\u2019s open, commuters from Long Island must be really happy with their shorter commutes? Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing: the MTA, the parent agency of the LIRR, built this very expensive new terminal. But they didn\u2019t buy new&nbsp;<em>trains<\/em>, which were needed to adequately service the terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshbarro.com\/p\/congestion-pricing-a-good-idea-died\">https:\/\/www.joshbarro.com\/p\/congestion-pricing-a-good-idea-died<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut then, who\u2019s counting? New York mega-projects always take way too long and cost way too much. At least, now that it\u2019s open, commuters from Long Island must be really happy with their shorter commutes? Right? Unfortunately not. Here\u2019s the thing: the MTA, the parent agency of the LIRR, built this very expensive new terminal.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}