{"id":100,"date":"2005-01-12T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/01\/number_9_number_9.html"},"modified":"2005-01-12T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:12:30","slug":"number_9_number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/number_9_number.html","title":{"rendered":"Number 9 . . . Number 9 . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;9&#8221; part of the 1\/9 Subway will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/270476p-231640c.html\">discontinued in May<\/a>, the 9 being the quasi-express &#8220;skip-stop&#8221; version of the 1 as it travels uptown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The number of trains running will not change, and riders at the seven skip-stop stations will see more service, TA President Lawrence Reuter said in a statement. Those stations are 145th, 157th, Dyckman, 207th and 215th Sts. in Manhattan, and 225th and 238th Sts. in the Bronx.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having rarely taken the 1\/9 up there during rush hour, I have to admit that I never understood how the skip-stop thing worked. I suppose there&#8217;s still time . . .<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in case you ever wondered, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/nyct\/service\/pdf\/t1cur.pdf\">1\/9 Subway Schedule (.pdf)<\/a> (you knew that subways had schedules, right?) explains it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As an added benefit to customers, during the morning and evening rush hours, skip-stop service (1\/9) operates on the line between the 242 St and 137 St Stations. 1 trains skip 145 St, 207 St and 225 St; 9 trains skip 157 St, Dyckman St, 215 St and 238 St.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it is, in fact, never too late to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;9&#8221; part of the 1\/9 Subway will be discontinued in May, the 9 being the quasi-express &#8220;skip-stop&#8221; version of the 1 as it travels uptown: The number of trains running will not change, and riders at the seven skip-stop stations will see more service, TA President Lawrence Reuter said in a statement. Those stations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}