{"id":1131,"date":"2006-06-07T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/no_word_yet_on_the_battery-seller_lasso_event.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:12:22","slug":"no_word_yet_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/no_word_yet_on.html","title":{"rendered":"No Word Yet On The Battery-Seller Lasso Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/69750.htm\">International Rail Rodeo comes to the Coney Island rail yards this weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It&#8217;ll be hand-to-hand combat &#8212; at the controls of trains &#8212; at the Coney Island rail yard this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when the world&#8217;s finest subway conductors and train operators will be competing against each other in the cutthroat annual contest known as the International Rail Rodeo.<\/p>\n<p>The event pits transit workers from 18 cities against each other in tests of skills and wits. Events include subway driving, maintenance, safety and customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Although no one will lasso any trains Saturday, rodeo organizers say the competition has no shortage of cowboys<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of intimidation and trash-talking,&#8221; said Melanie Hazel, the chairwoman of the rodeo, which is sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association. &#8220;The competition is taken very, very seriously.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But is there a Roger Toussaint angle here? Of course there is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Meanwhile, transit-union boss Roger Toussaint may try to embarrass the MTA by launching some kind of protest outside, union sources said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Rail Rodeo comes to the Coney Island rail yards this weekend: It&#8217;ll be hand-to-hand combat &#8212; at the controls of trains &#8212; at the Coney Island rail yard this weekend. That&#8217;s when the world&#8217;s finest subway conductors and train operators will be competing against each other in the cutthroat annual contest known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_geek_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","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=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}