{"id":4542,"date":"2009-03-17T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2009-03-17T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:59:10","slug":"the_dirty_little_secret_about_shuttle_train_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/the_dirty_little_secret_about_shuttle_train_service.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dirty Little Secret About Shuttle Train Service . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . is that it&#8217;s the most uninspiring form of subway transportation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2009\/03\/16\/2009-03-16_brooklyns_franklin_ave_train_gets_c_for_.html\">So of course it only deserves a &#8220;C&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Commuters on the three-stop Franklin Ave. Shuttle gave it a C grade for the second year in a row, according to the Transit Authority&#8217;s second annual Rider Report Card survey. <\/p>\n<p>Riders&#8217; biggest gripes: long delays and unreasonable waiting times. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At night, the wait time is about 20 minutes at like 2 o&#8217;clock in the morning,&#8221; said Sara Shae, 22, of Prospect Heights, who relies on the shuttle to travel from the Park Place station to Manhattan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind waiting, but I do mind feeling unsafe waiting by myself,&#8221; Shae said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 20 minutes, I&#8217;ll get on, and [the train will] just sit there for another 10 minutes, waiting to fill up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/a_gentlemans_c.html\">&#8220;A Gentleman&#8217;s C&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/prospectheights\/franklinavenueshuttle\/index.htm\">Franklin Avenue Shuttle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . is that it&#8217;s the most uninspiring form of subway transportation. So of course it only deserves a &#8220;C&#8221;: Commuters on the three-stop Franklin Ave. Shuttle gave it a C grade for the second year in a row, according to the Transit Authority&#8217;s second annual Rider Report Card survey. Riders&#8217; biggest gripes: long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}