{"id":3598,"date":"2020-01-16T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:43:33","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2020\/01\/16\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here you see one of the new electronic signboards at South Station. It’s a standard ruggedized 1080p display. When the commuter rail or Amtrak train starts boarding, it switches to a listing of the stops and timing.<\/p>\n

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I was going to title this post “Lipstick on a pig” but on reflection I realized there’s a more subtle point to be made here. These signs were replaced because the old LED-dot ones (installed in the late 80s) were dated bespoke technology, basically untouched except for repairs for 30 years, and no doubt increasingly expensive to maintain. It made me think: this is probably what *all* the technological components of the T are like. No wonder it’s going to take years and billions of dollars to put things right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here you see one of the new electronic signboards at South Station. It’s a standard ruggedized 1080p display. When the commuter rail or Amtrak train starts boarding, it switches to a listing of the stops and timing. I was going to title this post “Lipstick on a pig” but on reflection I realized there’s a … Continue reading “Update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}