{"id":576,"date":"2009-05-12T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2009-05-12T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:12:43","slug":"pull-the-cords-on-the-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/pull-the-cords-on-the-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pull the cords on the buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_577\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/2009-02-25\/DSC_3313f.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-577\" title=\"dsc_3313f-435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_3313f-435.jpg\" alt=\"NYCT Bus Orion VII NG 3804 has bell cords!\" width=\"435\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_3313f-435.jpg 435w, http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_3313f-435-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NYCT Bus Orion VII NG 3804 has bell cords!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times City Room Blog has a piece today on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/12\/the-return-of-the-bus-bell-cord\/\">return of bell cords to New York City buses<\/a>. It is specifically the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionbus.com\/orion\/0-867-584010-1-584123-1-0-0-0-0-1-10595-584008-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html\">Orion VII Next Generation<\/a> buses that have these bell cords.\u00a0 While I think that these new buses are extremely ugly in general, the pull cords are a nice touch. Using the pull cord reminds me of the good times I&#8217;ve had riding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/album420\/\">Vintage Bus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/2008-12-23\/DSC_0644f_800.jpg.html\">Fleet<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/2008-12-03\/\">revenue<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/2008-12-05\/\">service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_578\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/album420\/DSC_7987.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-578\" title=\"dsc_7987-435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_7987-435.jpg\" alt=\"vintage New York City bus Flxible 7340 has pull cords - look for the black cord above the passengers' heads\" width=\"435\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_7987-435.jpg 435w, http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_7987-435-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">vintage New York City bus Flxible 7340 has pull cords - look for the black cord above the passengers&#39; heads<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"kosa-target-image\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; z-index: 2147483647; left: 366px; top: 353px;\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,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\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times City Room Blog has a piece today on the return of bell cords to New York City buses. It is specifically the new Orion VII Next Generation buses that have these bell cords.\u00a0 While I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/pull-the-cords-on-the-buses\/\">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":[390,12,26,67,185],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus","tag-bus","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}