{"id":66143,"date":"2015-03-22T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66143"},"modified":"2015-03-22T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:25:24","slug":"wp-district-wrestling-with-how-to-fix-streetcar-lines-numerous-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66143","title":{"rendered":"WP: District wrestling with how to fix streetcar line\u2019s numerous flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would never have expected such incompetence from a <A HREF+\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.#Demographics\">city that is half black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After all, everything else in D.C. runs so well.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/district-wrestling-with-how-to-fix-streetcar-lines-numerous-flaws\/2015\/03\/21\/07cd777a-cf56-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?tid=hpModule_13097a0c-868e-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&#038;hpid=z13\">The Washington Post reports<\/a>: Broken pieces of rail have already appeared. Streetcar doors scrape against platforms. Switches that guide 35-ton vehicles from one stretch of track to another occasionally don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>In a new assessment released Friday, outside experts found \u201cno fatal flaws\u201d in the District\u2019s fledgling streetcar system. But there are flaws, and many are serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would never have expected such incompetence from a city that is half black. After all, everything else in D.C. runs so well. The Washington Post reports: Broken pieces of rail have already appeared. Streetcar doors scrape against platforms. Switches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66144,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66143\/revisions\/66144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}