{"id":17955,"date":"2011-01-26T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=17955"},"modified":"2011-01-26T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:30:00","slug":"is-the-u-s-now-a-nation-of-incrementalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/is-the-u-s-now-a-nation-of-incrementalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the U.S. Now a Nation of Incrementalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/newark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17956\" title=\"newark\" src=\"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/files\/2011\/01\/newark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>The U.S. is known for being big, having big visions, having big plans and projects. But has that all changed in the past few decades? Karrie Jacobs of The Infrastructurist delves into this matter in great deal and concludes: &#8220;Apparently we\u2019re now a nation that takes only incremental steps.&#8221; While our U.S. Secretary of Transportation is interested in larger visions of what the U.S. can become and promotes a transportation revolution, there are plenty of Republicans who are trying to stall that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about nothing short of transforming transportation much  the same way the interstate highway system did under President  Eisenhower,\u201d wrote Secretary of Transporation Ray LaHood on his  official blog. \u201cCan you imagine if Ohio or Wisconsin or any other state  had said, \u2018No, thanks\u2014we don\u2019t think that highway thing is going anywhere?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even our &#8220;transformational&#8221; plans are borderline incremental according to Jacobs. Read more here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/metropolismag.com\/story\/20110117\/the-incrementalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Incrementalists<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paytonc\/44832239\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Payton Chung<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is known for being big, having big visions, having big plans and projects. But has that all changed in the past few decades? Karrie Jacobs of The Infrastructurist delves into this matter in great deal and concludes: &#8220;Apparently we\u2019re now a nation that takes only incremental steps.&#8221; While our U.S. Secretary of Transportation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/is-the-u-s-now-a-nation-of-incrementalists\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the U.S. Now a Nation of Incrementalists?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[486,487,316,571,65,388,356],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The U.S. is known for being big, having big visions, having big plans and projects. 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