{"id":548,"date":"2020-02-02T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=548"},"modified":"2020-02-02T07:15:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:15:02","slug":"marblemouthed-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2020\/02\/02\/marblemouthed-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Marblemouthed Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes I have a need or want to ride public transportation.  My <a href=\"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=474\">recent trip to Vienna, Austria<\/a> found me traveling all over the city aboard Vienna&#8217;s fine subway system, for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I had need to use the (Washington) D. C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmata.com\/\">Metro system<\/a> to go into the city to attend the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonautoshow.com\/\">Auto Show<\/a>.  Side note:  I remember when the D. C. subway system was built, and when it first opened, it was the model of a modern, efficient, clean transportation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the delays caused by single-tracking (an effect of much-needed repairs being performed) one thing that I found both sad and humorous at the same time:  The inability of train operators to clearly enunciate over the train&#8217;s P.A. system.  Not only were the stop names unintelligible, but even the delay announcements. A short lesson in how to speak clearly over a public address system should be mandatory for drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, some of the newer trains have automated voice-overs, which seems to be the standard in places like Vienna, Toronto and other subway systems I&#8217;ve ridden, as do the commuter buses I need to take twice a year.  But my point is that if I were a tourist and didn&#8217;t know the stops, I&#8221;d be looking at signs out the window and worrying about how quickly I would need to exit the car at my station.  Fortunately, I&#8217;m familiar enough with D. C.&#8217;s Metro to simply find this humorous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have a need or want to ride public transportation. My recent trip to Vienna, Austria found me traveling all over the city aboard Vienna&#8217;s fine subway system, for example. Yesterday, I had need to use the (Washington) D. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2020\/02\/02\/marblemouthed-metro\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}