{"id":104,"date":"2005-01-14T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/01\/robo-train.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:15:45","slug":"robotrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/robotrain.html","title":{"rendered":"Robo-Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any reason not to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/14\/nyregion\/14subway.html?ex=1263358800&#038;en=3d54e4231ceef3d0&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">computerize the L train<\/a>? Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/01-13-2005\/boroughs\/story\/270637p-231761c.html\">of course there is<\/a>!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Protesting a move to replace subway operators with computers, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum charged the high-tech trains put &#8220;riders at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good morning. Save the L train,&#8221; she said as commuters hurried through the Bedford Ave. stop in Williamsburg. &#8220;How is the train going to know when there is a worker in the tunnel?&#8221; Gotbaum said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does the Public Advocate actually do anything beyond just being a pain in the ass? Just asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any reason not to computerize the L train? Why of course there is!: Protesting a move to replace subway operators with computers, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum charged the high-tech trains put &#8220;riders at risk.&#8221; &#8220;Good morning. Save the L train,&#8221; she said as commuters hurried through the Bedford Ave. stop in Williamsburg. &#8220;How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","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=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}