{"id":827,"date":"2006-06-24T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/06\/24\/crosstown-commons\/"},"modified":"2006-07-07T21:57:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T03:57:04","slug":"crosstown-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/06\/24\/crosstown-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosstown Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Crosstown Commons \/ 35W project has run in to some bumper-to-bumper traffic, might it be possible to come back to the drawing board and create a true solution for the future?<\/p>\n<p>Including, most importantly, dedicated light rail right down the middle.<\/p>\n<p>No one can deny the great success of the Hiawatha line. Think of the potential for the 35W corridor! Look at what Denver did with a steady source of dedicated transit funding. Many miles of new rail transit, including a line tracking the I-25 corridor, their North to South interstate.<\/p>\n<p>More Info: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"TREX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trexproject.com\">http:\/\/www.trexproject.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need a solution that encourages responsible development and encourages people to leave their cars at home. Light rail is a solution that scales to meet the needs of the future, and isn&#8217;t something that will run out of capacity the day it opens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to pay for thoughtful transit solutions.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]minneapolis, lrt, light rail, light rail transit, transit[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Crosstown Commons \/ 35W project has run in to some bumper-to-bumper traffic, might it be possible to come back to the drawing board and create a true solution for the future? Including, most importantly, dedicated light rail right down the middle. No one can deny the great success of the Hiawatha line. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}