{"id":5137,"date":"2009-07-17T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:25:15","slug":"commuters_uneasy_about_new_lirr_volunteer_program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/commuters_uneasy_about_new_lirr_volunteer_program.html","title":{"rendered":"Commuters Uneasy About New LIRR Volunteer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its cue from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partnershipsforparks.org\/\">Parks Department<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/schools.nyc.gov\/community\/getinvolved\/\">Board of Education<\/a>, the Long Island Rail Road recently instituted <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/local\/LIRR.engineer.passenger.2.1089704.html\">a new volunteer program to encourage community participation and trim costs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A witness has told police that a Long Island Rail Road engineer let a passenger operate a train bound for New York City. <\/p>\n<p>MTA Police Chief Michael Coan says the train ran smoothly and no one was injured. <\/p>\n<p>The witness told police that he saw another passenger in the cab without the engineer during part of the run on July 2. <\/p>\n<p>The double-decker train left Port Jefferson at 6:45 a.m. It normally has about 400 passengers and goes up to 80 mph.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its cue from the Parks Department and Board of Education, the Long Island Rail Road recently instituted a new volunteer program to encourage community participation and trim costs: A witness has told police that a Long Island Rail Road engineer let a passenger operate a train bound for New York City. MTA Police Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}