{"id":24485,"date":"2015-02-02T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/?p=24485"},"modified":"2015-02-02T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T19:49:13","slug":"screwed-up-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/?p=24485","title":{"rendered":"Screwed up priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/65660415\/100-million-on-the-line-for-Wellingtons-cycleways\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$100 million on the line for Wellington&#8217;s cycleways<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Plans to spend almost $100 million on the capital&#8217;s cycleways have been revealed, but the brakes could go on that vision if several city councillors have their way.<br \/>\nCouncil staff have identified 150 kilometres of cycle lanes that could be built across 30 routes from the south coast right up to Tawa, at a total cost of $93m.<br \/>\nThey believe they could fast-track the building of about half of them within the next three years, if they can get their hands on a slice of a special $100m fund for urban cycleways promised by the Government before the last election&#8230;.&#8217;<br \/>\n<em>In a tiny country with a population of just 4+million, with a relatively small number of them in real, productive work, this is insane. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$100 million on the line for Wellington&#8217;s cycleways &#8216;Plans to spend almost $100 million on the capital&#8217;s cycleways have been revealed, but the brakes could go on that vision if several city councillors have their way. Council staff have identified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/?p=24485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}