{"id":540,"date":"2008-04-21T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2008-04-21T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T12:33:42","slug":"i-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"I-75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I had to go to Saginaw on business.  And fortunately, I do not have to make the trip very often.  But when I do go, my preferred road is I-75.<\/p>\n<p>I-75 is a multi lane road with up to 4 lanes in each direction.  Today, as I was driving it, I noticed that it drops from 4 lanes to 3 lanes.<\/p>\n<p>I found this lane reduction to be quit odd.  Usually, lane reductions occur when you leave a city or an interchange, but not this one.  This one just occurs in the middle of no where.  So, all of the drivers that were occupying 4 lanes now have to occupy 3 with no chance of getting off.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, turns a busy road into a congested road.  And, this road is a main artery  for  weekend recreation so it is double worse on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they just ran out of money when they were building the road?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I had to go to Saginaw on business. And fortunately, I do not have to make the trip very often. But when I do go, my preferred road is I-75. I-75 is a multi lane road with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=540\">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":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-8I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}