{"id":8474,"date":"2019-05-27T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2019-05-27T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T04:21:06","slug":"quote-of-the-day-commuter-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2019\/05\/27\/quote-of-the-day-commuter-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Commuter Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is taken straight from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/what-drives-nh-commuters-take-bus-boston\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHPR<\/a>, a site that continually supports commuter rail. The comment that follows is the most succinct explanation of why extending the MBTA to Concord would be unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;82,000 people travel from New Hampshire to Massachusetts each day, but only about 2,000 of them take public transit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does that say about transit? It says that transit is a better choice than driving for only two and a half percent of those people. Out of 100 commuters who weigh the advantages and disadvantages of transit versus driving, <strong>97.5 percent of them have concluded that driving is better<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nhcvrc.org\/pdf\/CommuterRail.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comprehensive PDF File<\/a> (not from lobbyists) on commuter rail &#8212; and why it would not help to alleviate traffic or pollution, create jobs or improve the economy, draw youth to an area, or be able to sustain itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is taken straight from NHPR, a site that continually supports commuter rail. The comment that follows is the most succinct explanation of why extending the MBTA to Concord would be unsustainable. &#8220;82,000 people travel from New Hampshire to Massachusetts each day, but only about 2,000 of them take public transit.&#8221; What does that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-commuter-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}