{"id":36,"date":"2012-01-12T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:15:24","slug":"freeway-deconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/12\/freeway-deconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeway Deconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/Tom-McCall-Park1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/Herp-Derp1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/Herp-Derp1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/Herp-Derp1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/Herp-Derp1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Formerly the site of Harbor Drive Freeway, the city of Portland was the first in the United States to decide to close and remove a freeway, and replaced it with the 37-acre Tom McCall Waterfront Part (seen here). Since the removal of the freeway in 1974, property values in downtown Portland have increased an average of 10.4% annually, crime has decreased in this area by 65% compared to 16% reduction in the city as a whole, and there has been no noted congestion in the surrounding roadways. Surprisingly, before and after comparisons demonstrated a 9.6% decrease in vehicle trips of nearby roads and bridges.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Formerly the site of Harbor Drive Freeway, the city of Portland was the first in the United States to decide to close and remove a freeway, and replaced it with the 37-acre Tom McCall Waterfront Part (seen here). Since the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/12\/freeway-deconstruction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}