{"id":171,"date":"2004-07-19T00:20:41","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/07\/19\/airport-t-stop-2-steps-forward-1-ste"},"modified":"2004-07-19T00:20:41","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T04:20:41","slug":"airport-t-stop-2-steps-forward-1-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/07\/airport-t-stop-2-steps-forward-1-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport T stop: 2 steps forward, 1 step back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a182'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"0pt 1em 1em 0pt; float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderkoo.com\/photos_local?wid=175&amp;func=viewSubmission&amp;sid=107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/anderkoo\/TZoom.jpg\" height=\"71\" width=\"138\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It might be prettier,<br \/>\nand the gates are indeed wider and easier to maneuver your luggage<br \/>\nthrough, but boy, the fact that the new Airport stop on the Blue Line<br \/>\nis on ground level sure was an unpleasant surprise. Now when you&#8217;re heading inbound,<br \/>\nyou have to go UP the escalaters, OVER the tracks, and back DOWN again.<br \/>\nOTOH, it&#8217;s a little like paying tolls only one way, because I guess<br \/>\npeople heading to the airport from the T don&#8217;t need to negotiate<br \/>\nescalators at all&#8230; and, I suppose, it&#8217;s the people rushing to catch a<br \/>\nflight for whom the station was designed.<\/p>\n<p>It was also annoying that the bus dropped us off quite a way from<br \/>\nthe station, while the old, funky, ugly station had the bus pull<br \/>\nright up to the curb.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I found this piece of T propoganda amusing. It reads in part:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new Airport T Station, built 500<br \/>\nyards east of the former station, combines outstanding design with<br \/>\nfunctionality. Features of this state-of-the-art facility include:<br \/>\nenlarged fare collection turnstiles, new elevators and escalators,<br \/>\nflight status monitor displays and a glass curtain wall.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">glass curtain wall<\/span>?\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be prettier, and the gates are indeed wider and easier to maneuver your luggage through, but boy, the fact that the new Airport stop on the Blue Line is on ground level sure was an unpleasant surprise. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/07\/airport-t-stop-2-steps-forward-1-step-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts-boston-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}