{"id":198,"date":"2013-02-28T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:16:19","slug":"new-commuting-statistics-for-downtown-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/new-commuting-statistics-for-downtown-seattle.html","title":{"rendered":"New Commuting Statistics for Downtown Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commuteseattle.com\/\">Commute Seattle<\/a> is about to release a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commuteseattle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Commute-Seattle-2012-Modesplit-Initial-Release-Memo-2.14.132.pdf\">study<\/a> on commute modes in Downtown Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>More people ride transit (43%) than drive alone (34%). This is good.<\/p>\n<p>But more people &#8220;telework\/flex&#8221; (4%) than ride bikes to work (3%).\u00a0 Who wants to bet which workers are more productive?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-02-28\/the-excessive-uproar-over-marissa-mayers-telecommuting-ban\">Yahoo<\/a> anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the take-home on this is that driving to work downtown is no longer doable&#8230; 50% of people did it in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>We most definitely do not recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/28\/everyone-s-first-car-should-be-a-tank.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">this approach<\/a> to driving to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commute Seattle is about to release a study on commute modes in Downtown Seattle. More people ride transit (43%) than drive alone (34%). This is good. But more people &#8220;telework\/flex&#8221; (4%) than ride bikes to work (3%).\u00a0 Who wants to bet which workers are more productive?\u00a0 Yahoo anyone? Perhaps the take-home on this is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/3GRAPHSFORWEB1.png?fit=1058%2C2214&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}