{"id":35,"date":"2008-05-23T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/double-decker-buses-to-return-to-new-york-city\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:42:58","slug":"double-decker-buses-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/double-decker-buses-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"double-decker buses to return to new york city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A NYC Transit official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/05\/23\/2008-05-23_doubledeckers_on_way.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that double-decker buses will be <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2008\/05\/23\/doubledecker_mt.php\" target=\"_blank\">running in New York City<\/a> this summer (or by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/transportation\/am-busmain0523,0,4508586.story\">the end of the year<\/a>) as a test for possible future permanent service. Double-decker buses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/23\/nyregion\/23buses.html\" target=\"_blank\">used to run<\/a> along Fifth Avenue back in the day. One bus model possibly being considered for the summer test is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc-companies.com\/models\/td925.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Van Hool TD925<\/a>. A couple months ago I caught one running around Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc_0807.jpg\" title=\"dsc_0807.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc_0807.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0807.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc_0750a.jpg\" title=\"dsc_0750a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc_0750a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0750a.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NYC Transit official confirmed that double-decker buses will be running in New York City this summer (or by the end of the year) as a test for possible future permanent service. Double-decker buses used to run along Fifth Avenue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/double-decker-buses-new-york-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[390,47,48,46,49,12,26,50,13,51],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus","tag-bus","tag-buses","tag-city","tag-double-decker","tag-future","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-nyct","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}