{"id":122,"date":"2008-02-13T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2008\/02\/13\/transit\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T17:44:18","slug":"transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2008\/02\/13\/transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/4272937\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/4272937_03912058e8.jpg\" width=\"355\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Transit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For as long as I&#8217;ve lived in Petaluma, the main bus stop for the West Side has been at the corner of 3rd and C streets. It&#8217;s very convenient for people who commute to the San Francisco, but the large buses don&#8217;t really fit on the narrow streets through downtown. They have a hard time making turns. <\/p>\n<p>In November a new $2.7 million transit mall opened that will hopefully reduce the number of buses running through downtown and adjacent residential streets. I&#8217;m all for<br \/>\n having some buses make stops in downtown so that it&#8217;s easy and convenient for people, but the commuter lines don&#8217;t need to go through downtown. The new transit mall has plenty of room for passengers to wait and plenty of room for buses. It&#8217;s only a couple of blocks from downtown and probably a 5-10 minute walk from the old stop at 3rd and C. <\/p>\n<p>Although the cost seems a bit high considering the transit mall isn&#8217;t much, I&#8217;m glad the city made the effort. It will make it safer to walk and bike downtown, reduce traffic on already congested streets, and encourage people to use public transit. <\/p>\n<p>A recent article with more information can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.arguscourier.com\/article\/20080207\/NEWS01\/397449076\">Argus Courier web site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This shot was taken as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photochallenge.org\/2008\/01\/the-2008-challenge\/\">2008 Challenge<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photochallenge.org\">photochallenge.org<\/a>. You can see where the shot was taken by viewing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/4272937\/\">Geotag on Zooomr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As side note, I&#8217;m trying to catch up on shots for the 2008 Challenge. I have several shots planned, but not enough to make the 52 needed for one a week in 2008. I guess I&#8217;ll have to get creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I&#8217;ve lived in Petaluma, the main bus stop for the West Side has been at the corner of 3rd and C streets. It&#8217;s very convenient for people who commute to the San Francisco, but the large buses don&#8217;t really fit on the narrow streets through downtown. They have a hard time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2008\/02\/13\/transit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,25,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}