{"id":5900,"date":"2010-04-02T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T13:20:52","slug":"at_least_its_good_for_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/at_least_its_good_for_something.html","title":{"rendered":"At Least It&#8217;s Good For Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/02\/nyregion\/02bottleneck.html\">The Times interviews the beleaguered people who live along the Cross-Bronx Expressway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For the tens of thousands of commuters who pass through the tangled crossing each day, the drive is a grinding torture. But for many of those who live alongside the Cross Bronx, the slow-moving river of traffic provides not only a steady soundtrack, but also entertainment, consolation and even wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramirez, a retired police officer, smokes a cigar every afternoon as he walks his dog, Peanut, on a patch of grass overlooking the highway intersections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think you&#8217;re the only person on the planet, but you come here and see all the people,&#8221; he said, gesturing with his cigar stub to a line of cars. &#8220;It clears my mind. I don&#8217;t feel alone when I come here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m having trouble with my wife,&#8221; he added, &#8220;I come here and watch the traffic. I thought I had problems, but look at these poor people. They sit in this traffic every day. These people have it so bad compared to me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for the busybodies at the Department of Transportation &#8212; why not throw a bone to the truckers for once and make the Cross-Bronx Expressway trucks only during busy times?  Because reducing congestion isn&#8217;t just for Manhattan, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times interviews the beleaguered people who live along the Cross-Bronx Expressway: For the tens of thousands of commuters who pass through the tangled crossing each day, the drive is a grinding torture. But for many of those who live alongside the Cross Bronx, the slow-moving river of traffic provides not only a steady soundtrack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}