{"id":708,"date":"2016-05-18T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2016-05-18T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:59:19","slug":"portland-transit-race-puts-taxi-and-pubic-transit-on-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Portland Transit Race puts Taxi and Pubic Transit on the  Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willamette Week had their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/culture\/2016\/04\/27\/bikes-vs-the-world\/\">The great Portland transit race<\/a>. The race was a group of people had to go from e Willamette Week office in Slabtown to Roadside Attraction, the pleasant patio bar on Southeast 12th Avenue. The participants used Bike cycle t Car2Go, Lyft, a taxi and the bus. The race counted time of travel and cost. \u00a0Unfortunately private auto was not in the equation.<\/p>\n<p>The winner was Car2Go at 18 Minutes and cost $6.47. the Bike was free at 22 minutes. Lyft 19 minutes costing $11.14.<\/p>\n<p>As for the bottom of the barrel<\/p>\n<p>Taxi 23 minutes costing $17.00 with tip<\/p>\n<p>and Trimet 51 minutes at $2.50<\/p>\n<p>I know firsthand the problem in using public Transit. My wok commute was 1.5 to 2.5 hours for a 30 to 47 drive. As for taxi no wonder why the cab companies are opposed to Uber and Lyft, they want to keep the tradition of high prices and poor service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willamette Week had their The great Portland transit race. The race was a group of people had to go from e Willamette Week office in Slabtown to Roadside Attraction, the pleasant patio bar on Southeast 12th Avenue. The participants used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,35,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro","category-portland","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}