{"id":6037,"date":"2010-06-03T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T12:50:21","slug":"another_way_the_suburbs_screw_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/another_way_the_suburbs_screw_you.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Way The Suburbs Screw You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/03\/nyregion\/03mta.html\">Your subway service is in danger of being cut because of the salaries of LIRR employees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In fact, more than a quarter of the Long Island Rail Road&#8217;s 7,000 employees earned more than $100,000 last year . . .<\/p>\n<p>Compensation varied widely within the authority&#8217;s various divisions. About 24 percent of Metro-North Railroad workers earned more than $100,000, along with 18 percent of bridge and tunnel workers, the data show. At the authority&#8217;s biggest sub-agency, New York City Transit, only 6 percent of workers earned six figures.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then you have the Post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/mta_crews_riding_ot_gravy_train_yWRhW9RPFTEj68wcJaXB2O\">which tries to pin it on Q53 bus drivers who &#8220;still get paid&#8221; to show up for extra runs to Rockaway Beach during summer weekends, &#8220;rain or shine&#8221;<\/a> (what do you want them to do, start a snow chain?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your subway service is in danger of being cut because of the salaries of LIRR employees: In fact, more than a quarter of the Long Island Rail Road&#8217;s 7,000 employees earned more than $100,000 last year . . . Compensation varied widely within the authority&#8217;s various divisions. About 24 percent of Metro-North Railroad workers earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037","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=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}