{"id":137,"date":"2005-02-18T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/inner_adam_gopnik_activate.html"},"modified":"2005-02-18T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:42:05","slug":"inner_adam_gopn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/inner_adam_gopn.html","title":{"rendered":"Inner Adam Gopnik, Activate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AAA notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/282067p-241692c.html\">the city&#8217;s worst highways<\/a>: The &#8220;very worst&#8221; is the ramp from the northbound Major Deegan Expressway to the George Washington Bridge (the Daily News explains: &#8220;At the end of a steep spiral ramp where two lanes merge, trucks must cross two busy lanes in a quarter mile to reach the bridge.&#8221;); the Gowanus Expressway from the Belt Parkway to the Prospect Expressway; the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Hamilton Ave. to Tillary St.; and the Goethals Bridge, connecting Staten Island and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, these highways were built for, like, Model Ts driving 35 miles an hour. So go slower! Against my better judgement, I&#8217;m exercising my Inner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/lhorreur_lhorre.html\">Adam Gopnik<\/a> to say, &#8220;Deal with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAA notes the city&#8217;s worst highways: The &#8220;very worst&#8221; is the ramp from the northbound Major Deegan Expressway to the George Washington Bridge (the Daily News explains: &#8220;At the end of a steep spiral ramp where two lanes merge, trucks must cross two busy lanes in a quarter mile to reach the bridge.&#8221;); the Gowanus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}