{"id":3242,"date":"2005-04-20T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T08:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/boston-roads.html"},"modified":"2005-04-20T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T08:42:21","slug":"boston-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/boston-roads.html","title":{"rendered":"Boston Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><place w:st=\"on\" \/><city w:st=\"on\" \/>Boston<\/city \/><\/place \/> is an enigma to me. You can&#8217;t find your way around the city as the streets are constantly changing. Internet mapping services are useless and automobile based GPS doesn&#8217;t really work either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Big Dig which cost billions and some residents tell me has only slightly improved the traffic situation in <place w:st=\"on\" \/><city w:st=\"on\" \/>Boston<\/city \/><\/place \/>. For a fun exercise try finding the airport from downtown. In the area by the Seaport Hotel\/Boston World Trade Center, there are airport signs in every direction except pointing out to sea. Seems like no one bothered to fix the signs through the dig.<\/p>\n<p>It is tough to fid a solution to this problem as visitor to this city and perhaps the best job I can think of in here is map maker as your services are constantly required.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston is an enigma to me. You can&#8217;t find your way around the city as the streets are constantly changing. Internet mapping services are useless and automobile based GPS doesn&#8217;t really work either. It&#8217;s the Big Dig which cost billions and some residents tell me has only slightly improved the traffic situation in Boston. For<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}