{"id":782,"date":"2019-02-10T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T08:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=782"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T08:08:31","slug":"impose-a-speed-limit-on-the-autobahn-not-so-fast-many-germans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/impose-a-speed-limit-on-the-autobahn-not-so-fast-many-germans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Impose a Speed Limit on the Autobahn? Not So Fast, Many Germans Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seemed like a no-brainer: Lower  Germany\u2019s embarrassingly high carbon emissions at no cost, and save some  lives in the process.But when a  government-appointed commission in January dared to float the idea of a  speed limit on the autobahn, the country\u2019s storied highway network, it  almost caused rioting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/03\/world\/europe\/germany-autobahn-speed-limit.html?fallback=0&amp;recId=1GylS5Jy9xP7rusv4p1gPGriaFZ&amp;locked=0&amp;geoContinent=EU&amp;geoRegion=9&amp;recAlloc=story-desks&amp;geoCountry=AT&amp;blockId=signature-journalism-vi&amp;imp_id=969552793&amp;action=click&amp;module=editorsPicks&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;region=Footer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like a no-brainer: Lower Germany\u2019s embarrassingly high carbon emissions at no cost, and save some lives in the process.But when a government-appointed commission in January dared to float the idea of a speed limit on the autobahn, the country\u2019s storied highway network, it almost caused rioting. New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}