{"id":952,"date":"2012-08-28T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=952"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:27:06","slug":"riding-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/riding-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered aligncenter\" title=\"Cobra\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/7655-1\/20120805-dscf1553.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=494d54dfd34fa470f0224352954056cb\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like driving. If you look through my photos, you will notice that I have been to a few car shows. I love the look of some of the old cars, but if I had a lot of money (old cars do take a lot of money, both to purchase, and even more for upkeep) I would rather buy a modern car.<br \/> In general, new cars are more efficient, built better, and most important to me, handle better.<br \/> So why don&#8217;t I drive to school? Parking. There are a few lots where you can rent a spot for $90 or $100 per month. Daily parking will cost at least $13.50. A monthly bus pass is $70. Since I can walk home from school, I buy $40 to $50 worth of bus tickets per month.<br \/> Ok, I am either a starving student, or a starving artist. Either way, I can&#8217;t afford to park downtown every day.<br \/> Which brings me back to buses. I am not convinced they are more energy efficient than reasonable cars. And buses are definitely less time efficient, but city councils seem to have a love affair with them. Roads are narrowed to provide bus lanes, traffic lights and intersections are optimized for the lumbering beasts and so on.<br \/> In a large city like Hong Kong, space for parking all the required cars is problematic, but in a small city like Victoria, why the big hate on the automobile?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like driving. If you look through my photos, you will notice that I have been to a few car shows. I love the look of some of the old cars, but if I had a lot of money (old cars do take a lot of money, both to purchase, and even more for upkeep) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}