{"id":888,"date":"2009-08-11T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=888"},"modified":"2009-08-11T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:30:00","slug":"the-columbus-highway-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"The Columbus Highway in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the city maintains that the Columbus expansion project is nothing more than a &#8220;streetscape improvement&#8221;, the project requires removing existing curb extensions to make way for the minimum 9 foot wide travel lanes being added. What this means, explained in pictures:<\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newyorkssixth.com\/photos\/20090811\/ccdrive1.jpg\">Monmouth Street and Columbus Drive<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Removing the curb extension at Monmouth street to convert parking into a travel lane also widens the distance between curbs&#8211; making pedestrian crossings more treacherous. <\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newyorkssixth.com\/photos\/20090811\/ccdrive2.jpg\">Varick Street and Columbus<\/center><br \/>The Same thing is to happen at Varick Street.<\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newyorkssixth.com\/photos\/20090811\/ccdrive3.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>Columbus Drive at Rush Hour. <\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newyorkssixth.com\/photos\/20090811\/ccdrive4.jpg\"><\/centeR><br \/>Say goodbye to all that sweet residential parking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the city maintains that the Columbus expansion project is nothing more than a &#8220;streetscape improvement&#8221;, the project requires removing existing curb extensions to make way for the minimum 9 foot wide travel lanes being added. What this means, explained in pictures: Monmouth Street and Columbus Drive Removing the curb extension at Monmouth street to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"views":2916,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}