{"id":2012,"date":"2007-01-16T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/ladies_and_gentlemen_the_next_l_train_will_be_arriving_5_am_monday.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:30:49","slug":"ladies_and_gent_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/ladies_and_gent_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Ladies And Gentlemen, The Next L Train Will Be Arriving 5 A.M. Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently those nifty oversized LED clocks on the subway platforms are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/488328p-411246c.html\">useful after all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Transit officials yesterday announced that, in a few weeks, riders on the L line will get real-time train arrival information, which will be displayed on electronic message boards on station platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The signs, which will get train locations from a network of onboard and track-side computers, will take the guessing game out of using the subways, officials said. Upgraded sound systems also have been installed in the stations on the Canarsie line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the introduction of this new system, garbled subway messages are on their way to becoming a thing of the past along the L line and eventually the entire system,&#8221; Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Elliot Sander said.<\/p>\n<p>The customer information screens are a side benefit of a larger, more complex system in which train speeds and other directions are set by computer and then relayed to motormen onboard.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently those nifty oversized LED clocks on the subway platforms are useful after all: Transit officials yesterday announced that, in a few weeks, riders on the L line will get real-time train arrival information, which will be displayed on electronic message boards on station platforms. The signs, which will get train locations from a network [&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-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}