{"id":447,"date":"2010-10-14T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/?p=447"},"modified":"2015-03-19T22:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:45:52","slug":"drive-55-mph-on-spare-the-air-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/2010\/10\/drive-55-mph-on-spare-the-air-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive 55 MPH on Spare the Air days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Spare-the-air-sign.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-449 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px;\" title=\"Spare the Air sign\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Spare-the-air-sign-300x200.png\" alt=\"Spare the Air sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Spare-the-air-sign-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Spare-the-air-sign.png 529w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>With the batch of <a title=\"Spare the Air\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sparetheair.org\/\">Spare the Air<\/a> days in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few weeks, I came up with an idea that would probably save a lot more gas than trying to get people to carpool and take transit (not that I&#8217;m suggesting we stop this, but I&#8217;m not sure how many people really switch on STA days). <strong>My thought would be to change the speed limit to 55 on Spare the Air days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how legal this would be (with all the permanent 65 MPH signs), but at least all those huge fancy digital boards that CalTrans has could read &#8220;Today is Spare the Air: Please drive 55&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spare-the-air-smaller-sign1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-455 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 258px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 258\/265;border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px;\" title=\"Spare the Air portable sign\" data-src=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spare-the-air-smaller-sign1.png\" alt=\"Spare the Air portable sign\" width=\"258\" height=\"265\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Do you like the idea? Call the Bay Area Air Quality Management District: <strong>415-749-4900<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/driveHabits.shtml\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" title=\"Fuel economy vs speed\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/images\/speedVsMpg3.gif\" alt=\"Fuel economy vs speed\" width=\"233\" height=\"182\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 233px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 233\/182;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the batch of Spare the Air days in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few weeks, I came up with an idea that would probably save a lot more gas than trying to get people to carpool and take transit (not that I&#8217;m suggesting we stop this, but I&#8217;m not sure how many people really switch on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Spare-the-air-sign.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}