{"id":16882,"date":"2016-11-09T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16882"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:27:42","slug":"is-this-the-slowest-light-rail-line-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/is-this-the-slowest-light-rail-line-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the Slowest Light Rail Line in North America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father and I were surprised at the glacial speed of MBTA’s Commonwealth Avenue line when we rode from Park Street to Boston College and back last May.<\/p>\n

Must Boston’s\u00a0streetcars travel so slowly? By comparison take Prague’s\u00a0nimble trams that whisk passengers through the city’s streets. There’s a lesson to be learned.<\/p>\n

\"Pedestrians
Pedestrians observe MBTA streetcars near the Boston College terminus in June 2016. Exposed using a Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"prague_12_oct_2016brian_solomon_331698\"
Tata Tram in Prague, Czech Republic, October 2016. Exposed on Ilford HP5 (ISO 400) using a Canon EOS-3 with 40mm pancake lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father and I were surprised at the glacial speed of MBTA’s Commonwealth Avenue line when we rode from Park Street to Boston College and back last May. Must Boston’s\u00a0streetcars travel so slowly? By comparison take Prague’s\u00a0nimble trams that whisk passengers through the city’s streets. There’s a lesson to be learned. Tracking the Light posts … Continue reading Is this the Slowest Light Rail Line in North America?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3857,678,1519,611,23,790],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MBTA_Boston_College_Comm_Ave_P1480384.jpg?fit=2309%2C1732","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4oi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16882"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17258,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions\/17258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}