{"id":2494,"date":"2007-07-10T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_thing_about_traffic_is_its_just_sooo_boring.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:21:31","slug":"the_thing_about_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_thing_about_1.html","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Traffic Is, It&#8217;s Just Sooo Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with perseverating on traffic issues is that you have to start seriously considering other mitigation schemes &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/07\/10\/2007-07-10_dig_it_bloomy_waffles_on_tunnel.html\">even if they don&#8217;t come with a giant pot of money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg, who once insisted the proposed Cross Harbor Tunnel would &#8220;destroy neighborhoods,&#8221; said yesterday he would be willing to take another look at the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg told U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a proponent of the tunnel, that he and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff would meet with him to discuss the plan &#8212; which would connect Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island with the national railroad freight network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure he&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; Bloomberg said after being quizzed by Nadler during a speech to the New York Building Congress. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the worst idea. It has some problems and who knows?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s comments came as a surprise to members of a Queens community group who had hailed him as a hero during Bloomberg&#8217;s 2005 reelection campaign when he declared, &#8220;We should not build this tunnel.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with perseverating on traffic issues is that you have to start seriously considering other mitigation schemes &#8212; even if they don&#8217;t come with a giant pot of money: Mayor Bloomberg, who once insisted the proposed Cross Harbor Tunnel would &#8220;destroy neighborhoods,&#8221; said yesterday he would be willing to take another look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}