{"id":223,"date":"2007-02-06T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"Green_Party_Transport_Policy_launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Transport Policy launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Party&#8217;s Transport Policy was launched recently.&nbsp; It is a strong and comprehensive document.&nbsp; Some of the interesting points: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>The <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhealy.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=165&#038;Itemid=40\">Baldoyle to Ballymun light rail\/metro<\/a> link is included (along with other light rail lines in Dublin Cork and Galway).<\/li>\n<li>Climate change is a core concern of the policy.<\/li>\n<li>There is a detailed cycling section which draws heavily from the work of the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/home.connect.ie\/dcc\/\">Dublin Cycling Campaign<\/a> and <\/li>\n<li>The policy recognises the induced traffic phenomenon, which means that building roads to reduce congestion fails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The policy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eamonryan.ie\/documents\/TransportPolicy_Final_LR.pdf\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> (pdf format)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Party&#8217;s Transport Policy was launched recently.&nbsp; It is a strong and comprehensive document.&nbsp; Some of the interesting points: The Baldoyle to Ballymun light rail\/metro link is included (along with other light rail lines in Dublin Cork and Galway). Climate change is a core concern of the policy. There is a detailed cycling section which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}