{"id":849,"date":"2009-05-25T05:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2009-05-25T05:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:55:53","slug":"this_should_make_new_york_city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"This Should Make New York City Traffic Truly Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05252009\/news\/regionalnews\/amazing_feet_on_broadway_170858.htm\">New York Post<\/a>, yesterday was the first day of the new program of banning automobile traffic on Broadway between 42nd Street and 47th Street.&nbsp; The idea behind this move is that the angle of Broadway creates odd-angled intersections in the city which congest traffic, so closing down Broadway entirely to automobiles will help the traffic throughout the city flow more smoothly.&nbsp; This I&#8217;ve gotta see!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday traffic was moving well through the area, but it was a Sunday afternoon on a holiday weekend.&nbsp; There are definitely doubts about how the area will look during commuter hours.&nbsp; This will be interesting to watch.&nbsp; I have a daughter who works in New York City, so I am counting on her to check in with me tomorrow and tell me how&nbsp;this program&nbsp;has actually impacted the traffic situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to today&#8217;s New York Post, yesterday was the first day of the new program of banning automobile traffic on Broadway between 42nd Street and 47th Street.&nbsp; The idea behind this move is that the angle of Broadway creates odd-angled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}