{"id":2330,"date":"2016-01-22T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/metro\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:49:33","slug":"metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Demanding change at the Metro &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SG-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"SG-headshot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC is the capital city of the richest, most successful economy in the history of the world. So it stands to reason that Washington should therefore have a world-class subway system, right?<!-- content_before_flip_end -->Instead, argues NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg in this week\u2019s Washington Business Journal, our subway system is perennially unreliable, dirty, broken down, expensive, and outmoded\u2013and poses serious safety issues. Washington\u2019s deteriorating and constantly delayed system plagues riders and has a negative impact on businesses in the area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/print-edition\/2016\/01\/22\/viewpoint-demand-change-at-metro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, argues NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg in this week\u2019s Washington Business Journal, our subway system is perennially unreliable, dirty, broken down, expensive, and outmoded\u2013and poses serious safety issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[314,18,22],"tags":[357,396,397],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}