{"id":8632,"date":"2017-10-25T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:21:19","slug":"unnecessary-lane-closure-on-vanier-pkwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary lane closure on Vanier Pkwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the blessings of working at home is that I rarely drive. For which I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I did drive, because I had to meet someone. And I ended up in an unexpected traffic jam due to a lane closure.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7MVx96E3Ak?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It appears that they were doing emergency (?) traffic light repair at the intersection of Vanier Parkway\/Riverside Road and the eastbound Queensway off-ramp here in Ottawa. What is incomprehensible is why they had to close a lane of Vanier parkway on the bridge, long before the intersection, and before the on-ramp lane splits, thus causing a close to half-mile long traffic back-up.<\/p>\n<p>[Sorry, no audio. I was swearing too profusely.]<\/p>\n<p>PS: Yes, I know. First world problems.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8632' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the blessings of working at home is that I rarely drive. For which I am grateful. Today, I did drive, because I had to meet someone. And I ended up in an unexpected traffic jam due to a lane closure. It appears that they were doing emergency (?) traffic light repair at the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8632' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-ottawa","category-personal","category-transportation","category-44-id","category-35-id","category-24-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8634,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/8634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}