{"id":519404,"date":"2010-04-07T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-07-imaginary-underwater-subway-lines-are-always-the-most-convenient\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:03:14","slug":"imaginary-underwater-subway-lines-are-always-the-most-convenient-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519404","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary, underwater subway lines are always the most convenient route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitauthorityfigures.com\/\"><\/a>Transit Authority FiguresFor publicly transitive folks like myself, why does it seem that the fastest way between two points is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/04\/06\/subways-to-or-at-lea.html\">an imaginary subway line<\/a>? And a watery one, to boot!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If I were an East Coaster, I&#8217;d definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitauthorityfigures.com\/\">submerse myself in these non-existent, though wish-listily handy transit routes<\/a>, even if their actual construction would be a big, wet flop.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>All a-surfboard!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like what you see? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/member\/email-subscriptions\/\">Sign up to receive The Grist List, our email roundup of pun-usual green news<\/a> just like this, sent out every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-07-colberts-climatologist-vs.-weathercaster-catfight\/\">Colbert&#8217;s climatologist vs. weathercaster catfight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-06-kfc-who-needs-buns-when-a-chicken-bacon-chicken-sandwich-will-do\/\">KFC: Who needs buns when a chicken-bacon-chicken sandwich will do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-01-how-much-renewable-juice-does-it-take-to-power-an-apple-ipad\/\">How much renewable juice does it take to power an Apple iPad?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4d2634af191003ccd857f632844af1fa&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4d2634af191003ccd857f632844af1fa&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun Transit Authority FiguresFor publicly transitive folks like myself, why does it seem that the fastest way between two points is an imaginary subway line? And a watery one, to boot! If I were an East Coaster, I&#8217;d definitely submerse myself in these non-existent, though wish-listily handy transit routes, even if their actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}