{"id":6,"date":"2008-01-17T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T00:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/todays-humorous-new-york-city-transit-service-alert\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T19:43:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T00:43:28","slug":"todays-humorous-new-york-city-transit-service-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/todays-humorous-new-york-city-transit-service-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"today&#8217;s humorous New York City Transit service alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This happens every now and then &#8211; something funny will pop up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/alert\/alertnyct.htm\">service alert<\/a>. Today we are presented with a new\u00a0subway\u00a0station name that combines the best of two stations. You have <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/nyct\/service\/eline.htm\">Jamaica-Van Wyck<\/a>. And you have <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/nyct\/service\/fline.htm\">Briarwood\/Van Wyck Blvd<\/a>. Put them together and you get <strong>Jamaica-Van Wyck Boulevard <\/strong>(see the image below).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/todays-humorous-new-york-city-transit-service-alert\/5\/\" title=\"20080117servicealert.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20080117servicealert.png\" title=\"20080117servicealert.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20080117servicealert.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"20080117servicealert.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is <em>not<\/em> the station they were referring to:<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery\/album285\/DSC_4589a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"photo_j\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/albums\/album285\/DSC_4589a.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Briarwood - Van Wyck Blvd (F) - name tablet on the Manhattan-bound platform. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 7\/16\/2006.\" height=\"102\" title=\"Briarwood - Van Wyck Blvd (F) - name tablet on the Manhattan-bound platform. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 7\/16\/2006.\" \/><\/a><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happens every now and then &#8211; something funny will pop up in the service alert. Today we are presented with a new\u00a0subway\u00a0station name that combines the best of two stations. You have Jamaica-Van Wyck. And you have Briarwood\/Van Wyck &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/todays-humorous-new-york-city-transit-service-alert\/\">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":[11],"tags":[12,13,391,14],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service-alert","tag-mta","tag-nyct","tag-service-alert","tag-van-wyck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}