{"id":71358,"date":"2019-05-22T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71358"},"modified":"2019-05-22T05:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:12:14","slug":"overpowered-by-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71358","title":{"rendered":"Overpowered By Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just finished spending a year and a half riding the Vomit Comet (aka &#8220;the Green Line&#8221;) to work and back most days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its best, it was a serviceable ride.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its most middling, it was crowded with free-loading University kids and, early on cold mornings, homeless people curled up sleeping on the chairs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its worst? I navigated between puddles of vomit, stepped in a pool of urine, and was to the point of intervening as a man attacked a woman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2019\/05\/17\/green-line-will-no-longer-run-all-night-during-weekdays?fbclid=IwAR2c3-SuyN7vBodUeStqTefZdsc1HARDS7iTiluEzopZEqbB55GD24tEw6o\">almost sense the defeat in the Met Council&#8217;s latest release<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Metro Transit is ending 24\/7 service on the Green Line between downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis.<br>The change, which is scheduled to take effect in August, comes amid concerns about drug use, assaults and other misconduct on the trains.<br>Under the plan, the light rail trains will not run between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. weekdays.<br>General Manager Wes Kooistra said the trains will be replaced with buses that will stop near each Green Line station.<br>Kooistra said the two-hour shutdown will also give crews more time to clean train cars and repair tracks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphasis on &#8220;clean the cars&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished spending a year and a half riding the Vomit Comet (aka &#8220;the Green Line&#8221;) to work and back most days. At its best, it was a serviceable ride. At its most middling, it was crowded with free-loading University kids and, early on cold mornings, homeless people curled up sleeping on the chairs. [&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-71358","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\/71358","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=71358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71359,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71358\/revisions\/71359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}