{"id":559,"date":"2007-09-05T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=559"},"modified":"2007-09-05T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T12:58:00","slug":"mta-launches-interstate-bus-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"MTA Launches Interstate Bus Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staten Islanders now have an MTA provided link to the Hudson-<strike>Bergen<\/strike> Light Rail Line via the Bayonne Bridge, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2007\/09\/first_mta_buses_roll_over_bayo.html\">SILive.com<\/a>. The route replaces a similar one operated by Coach USA. The bus line is the MTA&#8217;s first interstate service. We think in principle this is a step in the right direction&#8211; after all, we&#8217;re proponents of extending the future Second Avenue subway line to Staten Island&#8217;s defunct North Shore Line via Jersey City and Bayonne, a route essentially mirrored by the combination bus, light rail, and PATH connections. Time will tell if ridership reaches the hoped for 1,200 per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staten Islanders now have an MTA provided link to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line via the Bayonne Bridge, reports SILive.com. The route replaces a similar one operated by Coach USA. The bus line is the MTA&#8217;s first interstate service. We think in principle this is a step in the right direction&#8211; after all, we&#8217;re proponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"views":1006,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}