{"id":41353,"date":"2014-01-29T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41353"},"modified":"2014-01-24T22:18:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:18:49","slug":"41353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41353","title":{"rendered":"Train In Vain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Green Line of the Blight Rail\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_24966776\/met-council-announce-june-14-light-rail-debut\" target=\"_blank\">will open on\u00a0June 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what\u2019s the betting on it actually starting that day, versus the usual government delays?\u00a0 Should SITD have a pool?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good question.<\/p>\n<p>I say it&#8217;s like the opening of the Ventura Trolley; there&#8217;ll be a train running down the track on June 14. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be loaded with dignitaries and Met Council back-slappers. \u00a0That trip will be followed by days or weeks of &#8220;testing&#8221; and &#8220;training&#8221; time built into the schedule to allow all the slop time they need.<\/p>\n<p>Like the private sector &#8211; only more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Green Line of the Blight Rail\u00a0will open on\u00a0June 14. Okay, so what\u2019s the betting on it actually starting that day, versus the usual government delays?\u00a0 Should SITD have a pool? Joe Doakes Good question. I say it&#8217;s like the opening of the Ventura Trolley; there&#8217;ll be a train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41363,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41353\/revisions\/41363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}