{"id":14620,"date":"2003-08-28T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/building-the-washington-metro\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T16:24:00","slug":"building-the-washington-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/building-the-washington-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Building The Washington Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chnm.gmu.edu\/metro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/metromap.gif\" alt=\"Metro map\" \/><\/a>George Mason University has a very cool site entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/chnm.gmu.edu\/metro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Building the Washington Metro<\/a> that &ldquo;tells the story of the Washington Metro, a 103-mile rapid transit system serving Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia.&rdquo;  The site is very thorough and well-laid out, with sections devoted to the planning, construction, engineering, architecture, and operation of the Metro.  As a Baltimore\/Washington native, I&rsquo;ve been on the Metro many times, and it&rsquo;s pretty nice compared to some of the other similar systems I&rsquo;ve been on.  It was cool to see some of the different design issues facing its development, though&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106208786051544183?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Mason University has a very cool site entitled Building the Washington Metro that &ldquo;tells the story of the Washington Metro, a 103-mile rapid transit system serving Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia.&rdquo; The site is very thorough and well-laid out, with sections devoted to the planning, construction, engineering, architecture, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/building-the-washington-metro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building The Washington Metro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}