{"id":2029,"date":"2010-07-23T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T18:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:22:29","slug":"buses-green-and-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/07\/buses-green-and-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Buses: Green and Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">With low-cost, long-distance options like Vamoose, bus travel is on the ascendancy, especially when they can offer\u00a0high-tech services like Wi-Fi. If we could apply some of that high-tech thinking to congestion\u00a0 management, they could really move.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwcog.org\/uploads\/committee-documents\/al5YW19X20100721135321.pdf\">COG<\/a> survey has found an increase in telecommuting and a decrease in driving alone in the Washington metro region. Transit use is part of that equation&#8211;more\u00a0than eight in ten respondents who live in inner ring communities live less than one half mile from a bus stop. But can they walk there easily and once they get there are they perched on the curb, rather than sitting under cover?<\/p>\n<p>And if you can\u2019t be green at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/22\/garden\/22walls.html?ref=garden\">look<\/a> green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">With low-cost, long-distance options like Vamoose, bus travel is on the ascendancy, especially when they can offer\u00a0high-tech services like Wi-Fi. If we could apply some of that high-tech thinking to congestion\u00a0 management, they could really move.<\/p>\n<p>A new COG survey has found an increase in telecommuting and a decrease in driving alone in the Washington metro region. Transit use is part of that equation&#8211;more\u00a0than eight in ten respondents who live in inner ring communities live less than one half mile from a bus stop. But can they walk there easily and once they get there are they perched on the curb, rather than sitting under cover?<\/p>\n<p>And if you can\u2019t be green at least look green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[169,168,170,167,97],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","tag-bus-travel","tag-buses","tag-murals","tag-telecommuting","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11178,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}