{"id":3277,"date":"2008-03-26T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/what_did_you_expect_dc.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:36:53","slug":"what_did_you_expect_dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/what_did_you_expect_dc.html","title":{"rendered":"What Did You Expect, D.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you gave me <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R143_%28New_York_City_Subway_car%29\">nice new trains like the ones on the L line<\/a> &#8212; instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R32_(New_York_City_Subway_car)\">these 40-plus-year-old dinosaurs<\/a> &#8212; maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/26\/nyregion\/26subway.html?ex=1364270400&#038;en=57fab7feee90e920&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">I&#8217;d be  less likely to chuck my chicken bones any which way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Wet, sticky spots on the train floor, chicken bones, nut shells, spilled coffee, hot dogs and &#8220;lots and lots of rolling bottles&#8221; often greet subway passengers who travel on the E and the Q trains &#8212; rated the dirtiest lines in the New York City subway system in the latest survey by a rider advocacy group. <\/p>\n<p>Riders on the L line, however, are getting the cleanest ride, according to the group, the Straphangers Campaign, which released its findings on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you gave me nice new trains like the ones on the L line &#8212; instead of these 40-plus-year-old dinosaurs &#8212; maybe I&#8217;d be less likely to chuck my chicken bones any which way: Wet, sticky spots on the train floor, chicken bones, nut shells, spilled coffee, hot dogs and &#8220;lots and lots of rolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,46,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-quality_of_life","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}