{"id":467,"date":"2010-11-19T20:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/11\/horse-drawn-public-tranportation.html"},"modified":"2010-11-19T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:24:51","slug":"horse-drawn-public-tranportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/11\/horse-drawn-public-tranportation.html","title":{"rendered":"Horse-Drawn Public Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For a hundred years, from the early 1800s to the early 1900s, Europe  and America had cities of at least a million people that ran on a  massive, sophisticated network of carriages and streetcars. By 1880,  according to historian John H. White, Jr., US cities had 415 horse-drawn  railways running, with 18,000 cars on 3,000 miles of track, carrying  1.2 billion passengers a year. Most of these lines continued decades  into the age of electricity and coal, simply because the horses worked  better than any other option.&#8221; Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/restoringmayberry.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/public-transportation-3-horse-power.html\" target=\"_blank\">Horse-drawn public tranportation<\/a>. Thanks, Johan. Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2008\/04\/horses-agricult.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bring back the horses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For a hundred years, from the early 1800s to the early 1900s, Europe and America had cities of at least a million people that ran on a massive, sophisticated network of carriages and streetcars. By 1880, according to historian John H. White, Jr., US cities had 415 horse-drawn railways running, with 18,000 cars on 3,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,25,38,90,27,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}