{"id":1558,"date":"2006-09-14T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/a_riddle_wrapped_in_a_mystery_inside_an_enigma_at_the_end_of_a_cord.html"},"modified":"2006-09-14T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T17:44:08","slug":"a_riddle_wrappe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/a_riddle_wrappe.html","title":{"rendered":"A Riddle, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside An Enigma At The End Of A Cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTA officials instruct riders never to pull the emergency brake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/hands_off_train_brake_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan.htm\">leading some to wonder what exactly it&#8217;s there for<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In the event of an emergency, do<\/em> not<em> pull the emergency brake.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the main advice offered by the MTA in the agency&#8217;s new evacuation instructions, being distributed at subway station booths and on commuter rail cars.<\/p>\n<p>The message to wait for directions is now available in Chinese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Korean, Arabic and Urdu, as well as English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the emergency-brake cord is pulled, the brakes have to be reset before the train can move again, which reduces the options for dealing with an emergency,&#8221; the instructions explain.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTA officials instruct riders never to pull the emergency brake, leading some to wonder what exactly it&#8217;s there for: In the event of an emergency, do not pull the emergency brake. That&#8217;s the main advice offered by the MTA in the agency&#8217;s new evacuation instructions, being distributed at subway station booths and on commuter rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-someone_way_smarter_than_us_probably_already_worked_this_one_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","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=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}