{"id":1386,"date":"2024-04-05T23:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2024-04-05T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:48:01","slug":"1386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;future is at stake&#8217; when rethinking San Francisco transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/96\/296c6338-7384-11ee-b0a7-3331fd8eed64\/653993ec9baa7.image.jpg?resize=400%2C267\" alt=\"Billy Riggs, a professor at USF, riding the J Church Muni in San Francisco\"\/><figcaption>USF professor Billy Riggs, a specialist in urban planning and transportation: \u201cTransportation doesn\u2019t exist unless there\u2019s an origin and a destination &#8230; Part of starting from scratch in San Francisco is bringing those destinations together.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cSocietally, we have to accept that driving is a privilege,\u201d said William Riggs, a transit and urban-development expert at the University of San Francisco. \u201cIt\u2019s also a privilege that comes with costs in terms of emissions, particulates from tires and things like that.\u201d<\/p><cite>SF Standard<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/transit\/future-is-at-stake-when-rethinking-san-francisco-transit\/article_9cc643aa-897b-11ee-9738-b76b5d4eed11.html\">https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/transit\/future-is-at-stake-when-rethinking-san-francisco-transit\/article_9cc643aa-897b-11ee-9738-b76b5d4eed11.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSocietally, we have to accept that driving is a privilege,\u201d said William Riggs, a transit and urban-development expert at the University of San Francisco. \u201cIt\u2019s also a privilege that comes with costs in terms of emissions, particulates from tires and things like that.\u201d SF Standard https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/transit\/future-is-at-stake-when-rethinking-san-francisco-transit\/article_9cc643aa-897b-11ee-9738-b76b5d4eed11.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}