{"id":3164,"date":"2008-02-26T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/for_the_assignment_desk.html"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:52:18","slug":"for_the_assignment_desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/for_the_assignment_desk.html","title":{"rendered":"For The Assignment Desk . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question remains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1204030604278400.xml&#038;coll=1\">how you get trains off an island<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They were a vision in disco-era orange and yellow when they debuted in the 1970s, subway cars to put a smile on the face of the most jaded New York straphanger. <\/p>\n<p>A bunch were delivered in 1973 to Staten Island, where they became the workhorses of the railway. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still reliable and mechanically sound. But all this time later, the cars are as dowdy as leisure suits and as passe as The Hustle. <\/p>\n<p>To buy more time before new cars are purchased some five to eight years from now, the 64-car Staten Island Railway fleet is scheduled for an upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>An $11 million mini-overhaul is planned to spruce up the floors and seats, repair leaky ceiling panels to prevent soaked bottoms, and beef up the climate-control system. <\/p>\n<p>Later this year, the cars will taken two at a time to New York City Transit&#8217;s Coney Island maintenance shop in Brooklyn. Each pair will stay in the shop for about a week, and the entire fleet should be rehabbed over 12 months.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question remains how you get trains off an island: They were a vision in disco-era orange and yellow when they debuted in the 1970s, subway cars to put a smile on the face of the most jaded New York straphanger. A bunch were delivered in 1973 to Staten Island, where they became the workhorses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,62,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","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=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}