{"id":2204,"date":"2011-02-04T15:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2011-02-04T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T19:07:25","slug":"even-the-best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/02\/even-the-best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Best Laid Plans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Rockville&#8217;s King Farm was designed as a transit friendly community, with a gridded street pattern lined by street fronting homes on small lots. So that&#8217;s the community part. Now that the transit part is coming along, the pull of suburban standards is proving strong.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2625\/3921697832_ceff4034f1_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"389\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo courtesy of thecourtyard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/newurbannetwork.com\/article\/community-planned-transit-now-resists-it-14021\">this<\/a> article,\u00a0<em>A Community Planned for Transit Now Resists It<\/em>, \u00a0residents are quoted as saying the transit line will create a wall within the community. But this is not the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and King Farm is not Union station.<\/p>\n<p>Why do people never point out that waiting with your neighbor at a station in the morning is a great time to chat and get to know each other&#8211;much better than driving home in your car, hitting the remote to open the garage and cruising almost directly to the television?<\/p>\n<p>The cars and lawns of suburbia really do create castles&#8211;complete with moats and battlements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newurbannetwork.com\/article\/community-planned-transit-now-resists-it-14021\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Rockville&#8217;s King Farm was designed as a transit friendly community, with a gridded street pattern lined by street fronting homes on small lots. So that&#8217;s the community part. Now that the transit part is coming along, the pull of suburban standards is proving strong.<\/p>\n<p>In this article,\u00a0<em>A Community Planned for Transit Now Resists It<\/em>, \u00a0residents are quoted as saying the transit line will create a wall within the community. But this is not the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and King Farm is not Union station.<\/p>\n<p>Why do people never point out that waiting with your neighbor at a station in the morning is a great time to chat and get to know each other&#8211;much better than driving home in &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/02\/even-the-best-laid-plans\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/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":[3,5,20],"tags":[209,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-king-farm","tag-rockville","tag-tranist","tag-transit-firendly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}