{"id":8229,"date":"2011-10-01T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T01:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:03:24","slug":"8229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Cities | Should the Public Pay for Unprofitable Transit Routes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atlantic_transit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atlantic_transit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atlantic_transit.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atlantic_transit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/atlantic_transit-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a>We can crusade for the elimination of transportation services that cannot pay for themselves and in the process eliminate essential mobility for people who need to get around now, all the while hoping that the poor will at some point be handed adequate funds to make economically sound decisions. Or we can recognize reality and admit that transit services are at their core not just transportation organizations but also welfare providers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at TheAtlanticCities.com:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2011\/09\/should-public-pay-unprofitable-transit-routes\/215\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Should the Public Pay for Unprofitable Transit Routes?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can crusade for the elimination of transportation services that cannot pay for themselves and in the process eliminate essential mobility for people who need to get around now, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[415,416,25],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-bus","tag-transit","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}