{"id":2520,"date":"2007-07-20T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/john_liu_knows_what_ll_cool_j_knows_about_what_you_can_do_with_six_minutes.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:15:33","slug":"john_liu_knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/john_liu_knows.html","title":{"rendered":"John Liu Knows What LL Cool J Knows About What You Can Do With Six Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the lede buried here is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensledger.com\/StoryDisplay.asp?PID=1&#038;NewsStoryID=6162\">express trains only save you six minutes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mets fans can now shave six minutes off their trips home with the service change recently announced by the MTA. Starting last Thursday, the 7 train will now offer express service from the Shea Stadium station.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks the second time in the past few weeks that the MTA has made an effort to improve 7 train service. The first, reported in last week&#8217;s paper, was the &#8220;Rider Report Cards&#8221; that were distributed to riders.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman John Liu, chairperson of the City Council&#8217;s Transportation Committee, applauded the change. He called the six minutes &#8220;an eternity to any subway riders frustrated by all the local stops on the Number 7 line.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the lede buried here is that express trains only save you six minutes: Mets fans can now shave six minutes off their trips home with the service change recently announced by the MTA. Starting last Thursday, the 7 train will now offer express service from the Shea Stadium station. The move marks 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":[9,44,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-need_to_know","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}