{"id":3490,"date":"2008-06-06T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:22:26","slug":"no_7_train_extenstion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/no_7_train_extenstion.html","title":{"rendered":"No 7 Train Extension!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I assumed that would be the headline instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/06\/06\/2008-06-06_mta_hike_farey_may_visit_us_again.html\">&#8220;MTA hike fare-y may visit us again&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A rare back-to-back increase &#8212; along with service cuts &#8212; could be in store for commuters now that MTA number crunchers are suddenly dealing with a massive hole in next year&#8217;s budget. <\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s projected 2009 budget gap has ballooned &#8212; doubling or even tripling original estimates, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Without new state money, officials may soon raise the spectre of increases, service cuts &#8212; or both, sources and experts said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t have many options,&#8221; one source said. <\/p>\n<p>Subway riders gasped at the suggestion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a recent college graduate so I can&#8217;t afford the subway as it is,&#8221; said Bryan Tran, 21, of Queens. &#8220;Any higher and I will have to walk everywhere. It&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I assumed that would be the headline instead of &#8220;MTA hike fare-y may visit us again&#8221;: A rare back-to-back increase &#8212; along with service cuts &#8212; could be in store for commuters now that MTA number crunchers are suddenly dealing with a massive hole in next year&#8217;s budget. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s projected 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-consumer_issues","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","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=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}