{"id":234530,"date":"2026-01-15T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:33:32","slug":"wellington-scoop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234530\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Glen Smith<br \/>Who said we shouldn\u2019t be improving our roads? Road improvements increase road network capacity and so overall transport capacity. Plus many trips can most efficiently, or only, be made by car. But the science clearly shows that, as a city grows, if you ONLY (or overwhelmingly) build roads you inevitably end up with crippling congestion (Los Angeles is an example) that defeats what you are trying to achieve. <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=176799#more-176799\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Glen SmithWho said we shouldn\u2019t be improving our roads? Road improvements increase road network capacity and so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-234530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}