{"id":15869,"date":"2017-11-03T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15869"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:49","slug":"cable-cars-could-be-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/cable-cars-could-be-the-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable Cars Could Be The Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/110317_0203_CableCarsCo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote about the boom in Latin American cable cars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a mode of public transportation cable cars don&#8217;t cause the disruption that other public works projects \u2013 like subways or bus lanes &#8211; typically do.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re quick to build which means that politicians that authorize them are typically around long enough for the ribbon cutting &#8211; and the subsequent electoral rewards.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re particularly popular in Latin America&#8217;s more mountainous terrain where cable cars are an ideal form of transportation.<\/li>\n<li>Thieves are more likely to strike in public buses -they typically leave cable cars alone.<\/li>\n<li>And the more intimate nature of cable cars \u2013 two benches facing each other \u2013 helps encourage conversation and build community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21730743-they-appeal-both-politicians-and-commuters-why-latin-america-seeing-cable-car-boom?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote about the boom in Latin American cable cars: As a mode of public transportation cable cars don&#8217;t cause the disruption that other public works projects \u2013 like subways or bus lanes &#8211; typically do. They&#8217;re quick to build which means that politicians that authorize them are typically around long enough for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15869","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\/2017\/11\/110317_0203_CableCarsCo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869","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=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15872,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/15872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}