{"id":145243,"date":"2017-01-11T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145243"},"modified":"2017-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:30:33","slug":"federal-transportation-dollars-spent-on-streetcars-no-one-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145243","title":{"rendered":"Federal Transportation Dollars Spent on Streetcars No One Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/11\/federal-transportation-dollars-spent-on-streetcars-no-one-rides\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local governments routinely spend resources on infrastructure they don\u2019t really need or want simply because available funds are sitting in a federal account and are therefore viewed as \u201cfree,\u201d according to Sen. Jeff Flake\u2019s new edition of the\u00a0Wastebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Among the transportation and infrastructure examples highlighted by Flake in the latest Wastebook are the \u201ctwo federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants totaling more than $65 million\u201d supporting a streetcar that no one seems to want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been on a car with more than 25 other people; it\u2019s usually about a dozen, in a car that can seat 60 and carry up to 195,\u201d a journalist observed, and many passengers are homeless people just looking for shelter, who often \u201cgot a little bit rough with the operators\u201d and left it smelling foul, according to the Wastebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Local governments routinely spend resources on infrastructure they don\u2019t really need or want simply because available funds are sitting in a federal account and are therefore viewed as \u201cfree,\u201d according to Sen. Jeff Flake\u2019s new edition of the\u00a0Wastebook. &#8230; Among the transportation and infrastructure examples highlighted by Flake in the latest Wastebook are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145244,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145243\/revisions\/145244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}