{"id":22439,"date":"2026-06-02T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22439"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:50:22","slug":"why-texas-builds-a-freeway-next-to-every-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22439","title":{"rendered":"Why Texas Builds a Freeway Next to Every Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federalism allowed different states to experiment with different ways to do freeways, so we can see what works. It also allowed states to do highways differently based on the qualities of the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Texas Builds a Freeway Next to Every Freeway\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w5ECOsaQgpg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federalism allowed different states to experiment with different ways to do freeways, so we can see what works. It also allowed states to do highways differently based on the qualities of the state. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w5ECOsaQgpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[709,1706,1247,2005,759,21,2304,2305],"class_list":["post-22439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-federalism","tag-highway","tag-infrastructure","tag-roads","tag-states","tag-texas","tag-toll","tag-tolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22440,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions\/22440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}