{"id":2247,"date":"2024-12-25T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:34:14","slug":"can-commuter-rail-break-traffic-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-commuter-rail-break-traffic-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Commuter Rail Break Traffic Gridlock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic gridlock has become such a major problem in that people are moving into the suburbs, which increases commuter traffic on the nearby highways. \u00a0The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority believes rail is the solution, and it believes it so strongly that it plans to spend nearly $2.5 billion\u00a0over the next three years for commuter rail in the greater Boston region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts investing in commuter rail to relieve traffic congestion<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/massachusetts-mbta-commuter-rail-to-relieve-traffic-congestion\/730419\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/massachusetts-mbta-commuter-rail-to-relieve-traffic-congestion\/730419\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798388291585\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic gridlock has become such a major problem in that people are moving into the suburbs, which increases commuter traffic on the nearby highways. \u00a0The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority believes rail is the solution, and it believes it so strongly that it plans to spend nearly $2.5 billion\u00a0over the next three years for commuter rail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-commuter-rail-break-traffic-gridlock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can Commuter Rail Break Traffic Gridlock?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}