{"id":4992,"date":"2009-06-16T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:51:06","slug":"dont_say_this_kids_not_ambitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/dont_say_this_kids_not_ambitious.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Say This Kid’s Not Ambitious"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can’t figure out the impasse in Albany, tackle something truly baffling — like why the F train continues to suck<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The “performance and infrastructure” review, which goes beyond the agency’s normal oversight of the Coney Island to Queens line, came after state Sen. Daniel Squadron cornered the MTA’s Albany-based lobbyist and demanded action.<\/p>\n

“I have been getting increasing complaints about the F line from my constituents and, no less important, my fiancee,” Squadron told The Brooklyn Paper. “So I asked the MTA to do a full review, and they agreed.<\/p>\n

“There was definitely a sense in March and April, judging from the e-mails to our office, that something was wrong — the delays were longer, the trains more overcrowded,” Squadron added. “When I brought it up to the MTA, they did a quick search that suggested, at first glance, that something was wrong.<\/p>\n

“That’s why they agreed to a full review,” he added. “I’m happy that they’re being responsive.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(That said, Senator, you might want to carefully consider how campaigns like this craft your public image especially while things are so topsy-turvy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you can’t figure out the impasse in Albany, tackle something truly baffling — like why the F train continues to suck: The “performance and infrastructure” review, which goes beyond the agency’s normal oversight of the Coney Island to Queens line, came after state Sen. Daniel Squadron cornered the MTA’s Albany-based lobbyist and demanded action. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","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=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}