{"id":5315,"date":"2022-04-10T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T03:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/10\/traffic-jams-and-parking-meters-the-perils-of-motoring-1966\/"},"modified":"2022-04-10T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T03:38:21","slug":"traffic-jams-and-parking-meters-the-perils-of-motoring-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/10\/traffic-jams-and-parking-meters-the-perils-of-motoring-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic jams and parking meters: the perils of motoring, 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husbands, wives and children: there was something for everyone at the Earl\u2019s Court Motor Show that year<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Probably the safest place to drive a car in Britain now is in the middle of a Scottish loch,\u2019 is the arresting beginning of the <em>Observer Magazine<\/em> of 16 October 1966, a special issue to coincide with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCArchive\/videos\/194829011411407\/\" title=\"\">Motor Show<\/a> at Earl\u2019s Court, London (\u2018Living with your car\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>This state of affairs was \u2018a sad reflection on the crowded state of our roads, with their jams and their queues, their narrowness and their parking meters\u2019 \u2013 newly arrived horrors clearly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/apr\/10\/from-the-observer-archive-traffic-jams-parking-meters-motoring-special-1966\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1bfe711bcb557dc75156c99e23650442ff1ade3d\/54_586_2778_1667\/master\/2778.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=92bb293acb7927a374de8846f63967e7\" title=\"Traffic jams and parking meters: the perils of motoring, 1966\" \/>Husbands, wives and children: there was something for everyone at the Earl\u2019s Court Motor Show that year\u2018Probably the safest place to drive a car in Britain now is in the middle of a Scottish loch,\u2019 is the arresting beginning of the Observer Magazine of 16 October 1966, a special issue to coincide with the Motor Show at Earl\u2019s Court, London (\u2018Living with your car\u2019).<br \/>\nThis state of affairs was \u2018a sad reflection on the crowded state of our roads, with their jams and their queues, their narrowness and their parking meters\u2019 \u2013 newly arrived horrors clearly. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husbands, wives and children: there was something for everyone at the Earl\u2019s Court Motor Show that year \u2018Probably the safest place to drive a car in Britain now is in the middle of a Scottish loch,\u2019 is the arresting beginning of the Observer Magazine of 16 October 1966, a special issue to coincide with the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/10\/traffic-jams-and-parking-meters-the-perils-of-motoring-1966\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Traffic jams and parking meters: the perils of motoring, 1966<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}