{"id":2983,"date":"2007-12-10T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/a_gentlemans_c.html"},"modified":"2007-12-10T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:31:18","slug":"a_gentlemans_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/a_gentlemans_c.html","title":{"rendered":"A Gentleman&#8217;s C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As subway &#8220;grades&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-transit-1210,0,7028396.story\">consistently come out C or C-minus<\/a>, why is the MTA continuing the charade of asking? There should be one grade &#8212; &#8220;needs improvement&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The R and V subway lines received mediocre grades in the latest rider report card results released by New York City Transit.<\/p>\n<p>Straphangers gave both Queens-to-Manhattan lines an overall C-minus grade.<\/p>\n<p>The R received its lowest grades, Ds, for inaudible station and train announcements and uninformative station announcements. The V also received a D for inaudible station announcements.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, just do whatever it was you planned to do and get on with it! And on a related note, wouldn&#8217;t you feel dumb if your subway got an A? What would happen then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As subway &#8220;grades&#8221; consistently come out C or C-minus, why is the MTA continuing the charade of asking? There should be one grade &#8212; &#8220;needs improvement&#8221;: The R and V subway lines received mediocre grades in the latest rider report card results released by New York City Transit. Straphangers gave both Queens-to-Manhattan lines an overall [&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-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}