{"id":855,"date":"2006-03-22T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/so_at_3_am_youll_know_for_sure_you_have_to_wait_twenty_minutes_as_opposed_to_assuming_that_youll_have_to_wait_twenty_minutes.html"},"modified":"2006-03-22T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:38:30","slug":"so_at_3_am_youl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/so_at_3_am_youl.html","title":{"rendered":"So At 3 A.M. You&#8217;ll Know For Sure You Have To Wait Twenty Minutes As Opposed To Assuming That You&#8217;ll Have To Wait Twenty Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By July, long-suffering L train riders will be able to enjoy something straphangers around the world already have &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/401791p-340360c.html\">message boards that notify riders when the next train will arrive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Riders on the L subway line soon will be the first in the city to know exactly when the next train is arriving &#8212; thanks to new platform message boards that should be running by July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From a customer information standpoint, it is indeed a landmark,&#8221; Transit Authority spokesman Charles Seaton said.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 stations on the Canarsie line in Manhattan and Brooklyn have been rigged with communications upgrades that track train movements and will display train information on electronic message boards.<\/p>\n<p>The system will be up and running in the summer after a series of tests, TA officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about time that riders here enjoyed the same timely arrival and delay information that systems around the world have had for years,&#8221; said Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By July, long-suffering L train riders will be able to enjoy something straphangers around the world already have &#8212; message boards that notify riders when the next train will arrive: Riders on the L subway line soon will be the first in the city to know exactly when the next train is arriving &#8212; thanks [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}