{"id":5161,"date":"2009-07-28T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2009-07-28T07:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T12:56:44","slug":"everyone_has_a_narsty_subway_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/everyone_has_a_narsty_subway_story.html","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Has A Narsty Subway Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And if the MTA has its way, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/27\/a-cleaner-subway-needed\/\">there will be fewer outrageous subway stories to share with friends and family<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>To dramatize the effects of budget cuts on subway cleanliness, the head of New York City Transit on Monday described a recent incident in which someone used an entrance to the Rector Street station in Lower Manhattan as a public bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a situation where, between 4:30 a.m. and noon, we are not staffed to deal&#8221; with that, the president of New York City Transit, Howard H. Roberts Jr., said at a meeting with the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (Mr. Roberts&#8217;s exact choice of words, which included a relatively graphic description of the events, elicited grimaces from many of the spectators.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/07\/28\/2009-07-28_station_cleanup_doesnt_pass_the_smell_test.html\">Daily News confirms<\/a> it was &#8220;human feces,&#8221; obviously the best kind of feces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if the MTA has its way, there will be fewer outrageous subway stories to share with friends and family: To dramatize the effects of budget cuts on subway cleanliness, the head of New York City Transit on Monday described a recent incident in which someone used an entrance to the Rector Street station in [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","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=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}