{"id":1188,"date":"2021-04-07T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2021-04-07T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:12:57","slug":"replace-the-harbor-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Replace the harbor bridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend Roger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzinitiative.org.nz\/reports-and-media\/opinion\/pie-in-the-skypath\/\">disses a proposal<\/a> to add a walking\/cycling structure to the Auckland Harbor Bridge.  I think he\u2019s right, especially since one of he points he makes is that the structure can\u2019t handle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not surprising, given its age.  And what about rail?  There isn\u2019t any transit rail on the North Shore, because it has to come over the top of the harbor.  Trans-harbor transit is a bus on the harbor bridge taking lanes away from commuter traffic, or a foot ferry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for some Biden-style infrastructure spending?  Time for a new multimodal bridge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Roger disses a proposal to add a walking\/cycling structure to the Auckland Harbor Bridge. I think he\u2019s right, especially since one of he points he makes is that the structure can\u2019t handle it. Not surprising, given its age. And what about rail? There isn\u2019t any transit rail on the North Shore, because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}