{"id":2773,"date":"2011-12-14T14:58:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:26:42","slug":"if-you-think-theres-too-much-traffic-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/12\/if-you-think-theres-too-much-traffic-now\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Think There&#8217;s Too Much Traffic Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&#8230;imagine if hundreds of thousands of people didn&#8217;t take Metro everyday. That trip to Tyson&#8217;s Corner malls would be a Christmas time nightmare everyday.<\/p>\n<p>A recent WMATA study modeled the region without transit to measure economic benefits&#8211;property values increased, jobs in a regional economy, freeway lanes and parking garages not built.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that quality of life comes from a complex set public and private investments and variety in housing, transportation, recreation can feed that complexity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&#8230;imagine if hundreds of thousands of people didn&#8217;t take Metro everyday. That trip to Tyson&#8217;s Corner malls would be a Christmas time nightmare everyday.<\/p>\n<p>A recent WMATA study modeled the region without transit to measure economic benefits&#8211;property values increased, jobs in a regional economy, freeway lanes and parking garages not built.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that quality of life comes from a complex set public and private investments and variety in housing, transportation, recreation can feed that complexity.<\/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":[5],"tags":[341,339,342,97,340],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","tag-brt","tag-metro","tag-traffic","tag-transit","tag-wmata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}