{"id":2539,"date":"2007-07-24T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/on_lowering_expectations_to_virtually_nothing_mta_take_note.html"},"modified":"2007-07-24T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:27:17","slug":"on_lowering_exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/on_lowering_exp.html","title":{"rendered":"On Lowering Expectations To Virtually Nothing (MTA Take Note!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the 1 train provides the best service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/24\/nyregion\/24subway.html?ex=1342929600&#038;en=de9531fb7fe2bda9&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">according to the Straphangers Campaign<\/a>, is reason enough to stop you in your tracks (ugh). (If it&#8217;s so good, why bother with that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/capconstr\/sft\/description.htm\">fancy new train station<\/a> then? Maybe because 1 train service actually sucks?)<\/p>\n<p>So then it must be just a big joke that the G is rated &#8220;most reliable&#8221;? As in, it&#8217;s the most reliably sucky train? Read the report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straphangers.org\/statesub07\/G.pdf\">.pdf<\/a>) to find that the &#8220;G line ranks tied for 5th place out of the 22 subway lines.&#8221; No kidding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the 1 train provides the best service, according to the Straphangers Campaign, is reason enough to stop you in your tracks (ugh). (If it&#8217;s so good, why bother with that fancy new train station then? Maybe because 1 train service actually sucks?) So then it must be just a big joke that the G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-the_geek_out","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}