{"id":15619,"date":"2022-06-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?p=15619"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:01:29","slug":"evolution-of-public-transit-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/evolution-of-public-transit-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Public Transit in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
We all know New Yorkers love to complain about the subway. However, our current transit system doesn\u2019t seem so bad when you consider that commuters in centuries past had to deal with such inconveniences as literal tons of horse dung<\/a> piled on street corners and risking life and limb dodging cable cars on Union Square\u2019s charmingly-named Dead Man\u2019s Curve<\/a>. In order to understand the extraordinary degree to which New York City\u2019s public transportation has evolved to be safer and more efficient, it\u2019s necessary to look back several centuries at how commuters used to get around.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Horsepower Era<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n