{"id":434856,"date":"2010-03-16T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/end-road-ladot-stephen-box-40924\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:21:52","slug":"end-of-the-road-for-the-ladot-by-stephen-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/434856","title":{"rendered":"End of the Road for the LADOT! By Stephen Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 16, 2010<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"wlmailhtml:%7b83DA4227-CE51-4ECA-A34F-D3B2440603E2%7dmid:\/\/00000116\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=317&amp;L=770&amp;F=H\" >End of the Road for the LADOT!<\/a>  <br \/>\n<font color=\"#FF0000\"><b>BOX SOAP<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>By Stephen Box<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the City of Los Angeles grapples with the impact of the largest budget crisis since the Great Depression, it is imperative that departmental redundancies be eliminated. The place to start is LA\u0092s Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1979 by City Council ordinance, the LADOT was originally charged with  \u0093coordinating the City \u0091s various ground transportation and related activities.\u0094  Along the way it has evolved and grown, picking up a gravitational force of its own, resulting in inter-departmental tensions and a city-family  competitiveness at the expense of the community. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=317&amp;L=770&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Read more&#8230;<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 End of the Road for the LADOT! BOX SOAP By Stephen Box As the City of Los Angeles grapples with the impact of the largest budget crisis since the Great Depression, it is imperative that departmental redundancies be eliminated. The place to start is LA\u0092s Department of Transportation. Established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}