{"id":521833,"date":"2010-04-09T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:39:28","slug":"ray-lahood-says-%e2%80%9cpeople-want-out-of-their-cars%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521833","title":{"rendered":"Ray LaHood Says \u201cPeople Want Out Of Their Cars\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6717\" title=\"lahood\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/lahood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/>Some of our readers got mildy defensive about my post regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/07\/extreme-commuters-on-the-rise\/\">extreme commuting<\/a>. They made some valid points; sometimes you just don&#8217;t have a choice, especially if you switch jobs, or your partner works in the opposite direction requiring a compromise. But I still have a hard time imagining that all the driving could ever be worth it. And I love driving&#8230; just not to the same place, every day, for hours on end.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation, agrees with me. Last month right before he announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/15\/dot-signals-majorshift-on-public-transportation-policy\/\">new policy regarding equal consideration for cars, bikers, and pedestrians<\/a>, he told the National Bike Summit that &#8220;People want out of their cars&#8221;. Do they really?<\/p>\n<p>I hope the car never disappears. That said, I think there are just too many cars on the road. It can really ruin the driving experience when you have to spend hours in gridlock, fighting traffic into and out of cities just to make a living. Driving should always be an option, but LaHood seems to think that given other options, people would choose public transportation. He is probably right.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/09\/ray-lahood-says-people-want-out-of-their-cars\/#more-6716\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our readers got mildy defensive about my post regarding extreme commuting. They made some valid points; sometimes you just don&#8217;t have a choice, especially if you switch jobs, or your partner works in the opposite direction requiring a compromise. But I still have a hard time imagining that all the driving could ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521833","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\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}