{"id":933,"date":"2007-04-13T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2007-04-13T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T12:57:05","slug":"salt_lakes_light_rail_number_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/salt_lakes_light_rail_number_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake&#8217;s Light Rail: Number Ten!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting random factoid: according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_Light_Rail_systems_by_ridership\">this<\/a>, Salt Lake&#8217;s light-rail system &#8212; the train I mention so often on this blog &#8212; is ranked tenth out of 27 cities in terms of ridership. Not bad, considering a lot of people protested its construction a few years ago on the grounds that &#8220;no one would ride it.&#8221; (We&#8217;re still hearing that argument from folks who don&#8217;t want extensions running through their neighborhoods.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only I could find some statistics on the number of <a title=\"Further Evidence That Human Beings Suck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/04\/further_evidence_that_human_be\/\">people who leave chicken bones under train seats<\/a> and pretend no one saw them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting random factoid: according to this, Salt Lake&#8217;s light-rail system &#8212; the train I mention so often on this blog &#8212; is ranked tenth out of 27 cities in terms of ridership. Not bad, considering a lot of people protested its construction a few years ago on the grounds that &#8220;no one would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}