{"id":4080,"date":"2008-12-15T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2008-12-15T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:15:42","slug":"in_retrospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/in_retrospect.html","title":{"rendered":"In Retrospect . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/15\/arts\/design\/15ferr.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">$530 million for a full platform doesn&#8217;t seem like such a hot idea<\/a>. Think about it &#8212; the auto companies are looking for $14 billion. And you just spent a half a billion on four cars&#8217; worth of platform.  Would Lower Manhattan have been any less &#8220;rebuilt&#8221; without it?<\/p>\n<p>Not that a full platform isn&#8217;t cool &#8212; It&#8217;s great! I&#8217;m excited! &#8212; but the cost almost makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/hes_saying_what.html\">one seat to JFK<\/a> seem sensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$530 million for a full platform doesn&#8217;t seem like such a hot idea. Think about it &#8212; the auto companies are looking for $14 billion. And you just spent a half a billion on four cars&#8217; worth of platform. Would Lower Manhattan have been any less &#8220;rebuilt&#8221; without it? Not that a full platform isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,68,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-follow_the_money","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","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=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}