{"id":2425,"date":"2007-06-18T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/part_hizzoner_part_charles_kuralt_kuraltizzoner.html"},"modified":"2007-06-18T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:20:19","slug":"part_hizzoner_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/part_hizzoner_p.html","title":{"rendered":"Part Hizzoner Part Charles Kuralt . . . Kuraltizzoner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the good citizens of Harrisburg live in a swing state, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06182007\/news\/regionalnews\/bloomys_travel_bug_regionalnews_david_seifman___city_hall_bureau_chief.htm\">but that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not also wildly interested in congestion pricing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg is on pace to break the travel record for any recent occupant of City Hall, a Post analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>Records show the mayor &#8212; who happens to be swinging through San Francisco and Los Angeles starting today &#8212; has visited 20 U.S. cities in the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&#8217;t count Albany or Washington, routine stops on the government circuit, or foreign countries such as Israel, Jordan, Ireland and Mexico that Bloomberg visited this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, in 2004, he took a total of 10 out-of-town trips. Five were to overseas destinations and three were to Albany and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, an election year, Bloomberg scaled down. Not a single U.S. city, outside of Albany, made it onto his itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 months, however, Bloomberg has hit enough cities on his private jet to qualify as a travel-guide writer.<\/p>\n<p>They included Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Harrisburg, Pa., Boston, Little Rock, Ark., Cincinnati, Cambridge, Mass., Houston, Oklahoma City and Annandale, N.Y.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the good citizens of Harrisburg live in a swing state, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not also wildly interested in congestion pricing: Mayor Bloomberg is on pace to break the travel record for any recent occupant of City Hall, a Post analysis has found. Records show the mayor &#8212; who happens to be swinging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}