{"id":5600,"date":"2009-11-06T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2009-11-06T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:01:51","slug":"less_technocrat_than_technorat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/less_technocrat_than_technorat.html","title":{"rendered":"Less Technocrat Than Technorat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/though_we_wouldnt_need_a_faster_m42_if_we_could_just_have_coca-cola_in_the_fountain_at_bryant_park.html\">grand campaign promise to install Coca-Cola in the city&#8217;s drinking fountains<\/a> meets reality, and the newly minted third termer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/11\/06\/2009-11-06_keep_waiting_for_that_free_crosstown_bus_bloomberg_says_day_after_election.html\">reverts to vague pledges to use &#8220;technology&#8221; in some shape or form to fix stuff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A day after winning reelection, Mayor Bloomberg on Thursday seemed to step back from a campaign proposal to have free crosstown bus service.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;real issue&#8221; at the core of the no-fare proposal was speeding bus travel by reducing time spent boarding passengers, Bloomberg noted.<\/p>\n<p>That goal might be achieved through technology, Bloomberg said after touring the city&#8217;s 311 call center with MTA Chairman Jay Walder.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s grand campaign promise to install Coca-Cola in the city&#8217;s drinking fountains meets reality, and the newly minted third termer reverts to vague pledges to use &#8220;technology&#8221; in some shape or form to fix stuff: A day after winning reelection, Mayor Bloomberg on Thursday seemed to step back from a campaign proposal to have free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","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=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}