{"id":5382,"date":"2009-09-14T07:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2009-09-14T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:37:02","slug":"all_aboard_the_pooped_deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/all_aboard_the_pooped_deck.html","title":{"rendered":"All Aboard The Pooped Deck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you overindulge on tall boys, be warned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/09\/quiet_decks_to_be_enforced_on.html\">the Staten Island Ferry may now be legislating good behavior<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>To make at least one leg of a long journey a little more serene for commuters, State Sen. Diane Savino has been pushing for the creation of a &#8220;Quiet Deck&#8221; aboard the Staten Island Ferry, where riders can be free from loud cell phone conversations, chatter, and, of course, the ferryboat preachers who have long rankled a captive audience.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing legal issues surrounding free speech and how it applies on public transportation, the city&#8217;s Department of Transportation, which runs the ferries, has agreed to adopt the Quiet Deck, with signage posted on the Bridge Deck of the three newest Molinari-class ferryboats.<\/p>\n<p>Based on similar quiet areas aboard Long Island Railroad and Amtrak trains, Sen. Savino suggested the idea for a &#8220;place for people who just want to sit and decompress&#8221; before or after a long day at work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/statenisland\/northern\/ferry\/index.htm\">Staten Island Ferry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you overindulge on tall boys, be warned that the Staten Island Ferry may now be legislating good behavior: To make at least one leg of a long journey a little more serene for commuters, State Sen. Diane Savino has been pushing for the creation of a &#8220;Quiet Deck&#8221; aboard the Staten Island Ferry, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","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=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}