{"id":2245,"date":"2007-08-31T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/oh-joy-more-billboards-not-fewer\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T05:59:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:59:04","slug":"oh-joy-more-billboards-not-fewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/oh-joy-more-billboards-not-fewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Joy! More billboards, not fewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/588878metro08-24-07.htm\">ABQjournal Metro: City Adding Bus Shelters<\/a>, By Lloyd Jojola, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>    Albuquerque will get new bus shelters as part of an agreement with Lamar Transit Advertising.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;We&#8217;ve really had a great need for shelters, and funding has always been problematic,&#8221; Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez said at a Thursday news conference.<\/p>\n<p>    The City Council earlier this month approved a bus advertising contract with Lamar. As part of the deal, Lamar will build new bus shelters.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;In return,&#8221; Ch\u00e1vez said, &#8220;<strong class=\"highlight\">they get to put advertisements on them<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 2,814 bus stops in the city, 155 have shelters, according to the Transit Department.<\/p>\n<p>    About 100 new shelters will be built over the year. <strong class=\"highlight\">They will be lighted at night<\/strong>, using energy collected from the sun. <em class=\"mine\">[mjh: making this a *green* thumb in your eye!]<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>At the very least, the lighting on these eyesores should be restricted to times the buses run, not 24 hours a day. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal Metro: City Adding Bus Shelters, By Lloyd Jojola, Journal Staff Writer Albuquerque will get new bus shelters as part of an agreement with Lamar Transit Advertising. &#8220;We&#8217;ve really had a great need for shelters, and funding has always been problematic,&#8221; Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez said at a Thursday news conference. The City Council earlier this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/oh-joy-more-billboards-not-fewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Joy! More billboards, not fewer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albahquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}