{"id":1323,"date":"2006-07-21T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/the_little_train_that_couldnt_get_any_respect.html"},"modified":"2006-07-21T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:50:07","slug":"the_little_trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/the_little_trai.html","title":{"rendered":"The Little Train That Couldn&#8217;t Get Any Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/436765p-368023c.html\">Another sad chapter<\/a> in the sorrowful story of the sorely neglected G train:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Straphangers and Transit Authority workers at the Broadway and Flushing Ave. stations said the stench has been unbearable for a month, and that rivers of putrid black water have flown over the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It stinks,&#8221; said Nilsa Feliciano, 44, at the Flushing Ave. stop, adding that riders run from the trains &#8220;to get fresh air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It smells like a thousand bums are living down there,&#8221; said straphanger Brian Colas, 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put air fresheners in [the booth] to keep the smell out,&#8221; said Flushing Ave. token booth clerk Darlene McDuffie, who avoids venturing out into the station.<\/p>\n<p>City Department of Environmental Protection officials blamed the stench on a breach in a 54-inch-wide sewer pipe that runs parallel to the train tracks between the stations.<\/p>\n<p>But in two weeks of looking, including with a remote camera, DEP has been unable to pinpoint the source of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve not been able to determine exactly where the leak is,&#8221; said agency spokeswoman Natalie Millner.<\/p>\n<p>Workers were sent into the pipe yesterday in an effort to locate the damage, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the leak, the pipeline, which carries household wastes and rain water to the Newtown Creek-Greenpoint Sewage Treatment Plant, is operating properly, Millner said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware of it. We&#8217;re doing our best to find the source and fix it,&#8221; Millner said.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Transit Authority officials, who said track workers reported the problem several weeks ago, said the DEP hasn&#8217;t acted quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem still exists,&#8221; said TA spokesman James Anyansi. &#8220;Maybe [DEP] didn&#8217;t realize the urgency of it. It has leaked onto the tracks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/g_love_and_that.html\">G Love (And That Special Sprint)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sad chapter in the sorrowful story of the sorely neglected G train: Straphangers and Transit Authority workers at the Broadway and Flushing Ave. stations said the stench has been unbearable for a month, and that rivers of putrid black water have flown over the tracks. &#8220;It stinks,&#8221; said Nilsa Feliciano, 44, at the Flushing [&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-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}