{"id":11299,"date":"2014-08-06T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11299"},"modified":"2014-08-06T00:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:55:03","slug":"are-streetcars-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/are-streetcars-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Streetcars A Waste?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/080614_0452_AreStreetca1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist took a strong stand against streetcars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proponents of streetcars note that they bring prosperity and development. Areas in Arizona, Washington D.C., and Texas are all considering implementing lines.<\/li>\n<li>However it&#8217;s much cheaper to build a bus line. The capital cost per mile of streetcars can go up to $75 million, while the equivalent amount for buses is just $30 million.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover buses are able to move around obstacles, while streetcars are stuck until the obstacle is removed. Thus more often than not streetcars adds to congestion rather than alleviate it.<\/li>\n<li>Streetcars are also slow, and typically have more frequent stops over walkable distances.<\/li>\n<li>Developers seem to like building them because they&#8217;re &#8216;sexier&#8217; than buses and because they attract tourists. All in all though the benefits aren&#8217;t worth the costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of the argument, find out why they work better in Europe, and see details of the cost-benefit analysis over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2014\/08\/economist-explains-2?fsrc=rss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2014\/08\/economist-explains-2?fsrc=rss\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist took a strong stand against streetcars: Proponents of streetcars note that they bring prosperity and development. Areas in Arizona, Washington D.C., and Texas are all considering implementing lines. However it&#8217;s much cheaper to build a bus line. The capital cost per mile of streetcars can go up to $75 million, while the equivalent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/080614_0452_AreStreetca1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}