{"id":456,"date":"2009-08-20T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cityblock.wordpress.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:30:45","slug":"no-designated-drivers-needed-on-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/no-designated-drivers-needed-on-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"No designated drivers needed on transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/tracktwentynine.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/this-buds-for-you.html\">Matt Johnson<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser has a great ad (not sure how it relates to beer really, but that&#8217;s for the ad men to decide &#8211; and then convince me) with a nice little tour of Chicago from the El:<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOeIjnggggU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>It&#8217;s always interesting to me reading the history of various legacy transit systems and the push to remove old elevated railways.\u00a0 While they&#8217;re far from perfect, the El just <em>is<\/em> Chicago.\u00a0 And riding it gives you a unique view of the city &#8211; good neighborhoods and bad, industrial areas, expressways, downtown &#8211; everything.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Schrag notes that initial concepts for DC&#8217;s then-undefined rapid transit systems included proposals for elevated systems as a means to see the sights and monuments.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not convinced that&#8217;s the reason to pick elevated, but it&#8217;s certainly a fringe benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that would make this ad more &#8216;Chicago&#8217; would be if they were pushing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstylebeer.com\/\">Old Style<\/a> instead of Bud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(hat tip to Matt Johnson) Budweiser has a great ad (not sure how it relates to beer really, but that&#8217;s for the ad men to decide &#8211; and then convince me) with a nice little tour of Chicago from the El: It&#8217;s always interesting to me reading the history of various legacy transit systems and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}