{"id":1565,"date":"2008-02-27T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/27\/why-is-there-a-big-huge-pile-o\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:20:07","slug":"why-is-there-a-big-huge-pile-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/why-is-there-a-big-huge-pile-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there a big huge pile of trucks in Secaucus, New Jersey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Garmin GPS system &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; is leading some drivers &#8230;  straight into a dead end. &#8230;The electronic maps don&#8217;t show a gate that separates residential and industrial areas. It&#8217;s only opened for a couple hours on weekdays in the northern New Jersey city.Mayor Dennis Elwell says residents on Fifth Street started complaining about trucks clogging their street about a year ago &#8230; Some drivers have to call police to open the gate because their trucks are too big to turn around.<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20080225\/D8V1JIPG0.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has led to<a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/02\/26\/1255213\"> a call for Open Source GPS databases. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Garmin GPS system &#8230; &#8230; is leading some drivers &#8230; straight into a dead end. &#8230;The electronic maps don&#8217;t show a gate that separates residential and industrial areas. It&#8217;s only opened for a couple hours on weekdays in the northern New Jersey city.Mayor Dennis Elwell says residents on Fifth Street started complaining about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/why-is-there-a-big-huge-pile-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is there a big huge pile of trucks in Secaucus, New Jersey?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-pf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}