{"id":877,"date":"2006-04-19T13:42:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/04\/19\/railroad-bridges-cheektowaga-and-this-problem-is-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:42:16","slug":"railroad-bridges-cheektowaga-and-this-problem-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/04\/railroad-bridges-cheektowaga-and-this-problem-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Bridges, Cheektowaga and this problem is everywhere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"153\" hspace=4 src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/buffalonews.com\/graphics\/2006\/04\/19\/0419overpass_mrln.jpg?resize=250%2C153\" width=\"250\" align=right vspace=4 border=2>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/editorial\/20060419\/1063715.asp\" target=_blank>Buffalo News has an article today about Cheektowaga<\/a> and the state of the many railroad bridges inside of the town. The bridges are maintained by Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads.<\/p>\n<p>Well this isn\u2019t a problem that only plagues Cheektowaga. Look around when\u00a0driving about and you will see that railroad bridges throughout WNY are eyesores. It is something that we tend to overlook, but the problem is definitely there.<\/p>\n<p>In the article spokesman CSX spokesman Robert Sullivan said the railroad\u2019s emphasis is not necessarily on keeping the bridges looking nice. \u201cWe\u2019ve got literally thousands of bridges across our railroad,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve come to the realization that our resources really need to be directed to ensuring the structural integrity of these bridges rather than their cosmetics.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a lame excuse to me.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Majority leader Paul Tokasz along with the town of Cheektowaga want something to be done about the problem. \u201cWe have two corporate citizens who aren\u2019t doing their jobs,\u201d said Tokasz, a Cheektowaga Democrat. \u201cSimply painting bridges sends a message.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo News has an article today about Cheektowaga and the state of the many railroad bridges inside of the town. The bridges are maintained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-e9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}