{"id":9672,"date":"2008-11-19T06:31:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mtas_doomsday_budget_involves_drastic_cuts_for_new_yorkers\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T06:31:42","slug":"mtas_doomsday_budget_involves_drastic_cuts_for_new_yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9672","title":{"rendered":"MTA&#39;s doomsday budget Involves Drastic Cuts for New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA&#8217;s doomsday budget will wipe out the W line, zap the Z line and ax more than 1,500 NYC Transit jobs, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The list of bus and subway cuts the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil at its monthly board meeting Thursday is extensive and potentially bruising, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Riders can expect longer waits, more-crowded rides and having to make additional transfers to get to their destinations if the draconian moves are put into effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, this is not good,&#8221; said Gladeys Loaiza, a housekeeper from Queens who rides the W train. &#8220;When I get on in the morning, I can&#8217;t sit now. What&#8217;s it going to be like when the W train is gone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/11\/18\/2008-11-18_mtas_planned_cuts_include_everything_fro-2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA&#8217;s doomsday budget will wipe out the W line, zap the Z line and ax more than 1,500 NYC Transit jobs, the Daily News has learned. The list of bus and subway cuts the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9672\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,151,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}