{"id":13106,"date":"2015-09-30T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:08:12","slug":"how-subway-strikes-can-reduce-your-commute-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/how-subway-strikes-can-reduce-your-commute-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How Subway Strikes Can Reduce Your Commute Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/093015_1206_HowSubwaySt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>London has had about 50 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">subway<\/span> underground, strikes since 2000. The Economist looked at a study on what this did to commuting patterns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In February last year 171 of the system&#8217;s 270 stations shut down due to a strike.<\/li>\n<li>While 75% of commuters had to alter their route as a result of the strike, only 70% of travelers returned to their old route after the strike was over.<\/li>\n<li>The remaining 5% seem to have inadvertently found quicker commuting paths during the strike.<\/li>\n<li>Subway maps aren&#8217;t always the best representation of a city&#8217;s geography. Therefore a route that seems to make sense on a subway map may not actually be the fastest way to get to a destination.<\/li>\n<li>Strikes force commuters to think of alternate stations that they can use \u2013 and for a surprising number the alternate route is actually faster.<\/li>\n<li>On average therefore those who were affected by the strike shaved 20 seconds of off their commute time once the strike was over.<\/li>\n<li>Summed over time these benefits will more than make up for the cost of the strike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the study and its conclusions over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21665061-how-tube-strikes-help-londoners-silver-line?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21665061-how-tube-strikes-help-londoners-silver-line?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London has had about 50 subway underground, strikes since 2000. The Economist looked at a study on what this did to commuting patterns: In February last year 171 of the system&#8217;s 270 stations shut down due to a strike. While 75% of commuters had to alter their route as a result of the strike, only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/093015_1206_HowSubwaySt1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13109,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions\/13109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}