{"id":29,"date":"2005-02-24T01:39:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T06:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/weather\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-02-24T01:39:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T06:39:52","slug":"bad-path-luck-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"bad [PATH] luck coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the last four times i&#8217;ve walked down the stairs to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/path\/index.html\">PATH<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/path\/pathmaplinks2.html\">station<\/a> i&#8217;ve arrived at a train pulling in, or having just pulled into the station, and i&#8217;ve gotten on, without any waiting on the platform<sup> 1<\/sup>.  this of couse called for a little, evaluating. the times this occurred, two times manhattan-bound around 10:15 and 8:45 and home-bound at 10:30 and 8:45 (AM and PM where they should be) and, the time between trains respectivly: every 4-5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every 15 minutes, and every 10 minutes.  assuming that we give a one minute window of &#8216;catching&#8217; your train when you walk into the station, in order my chances for &#8216;catching&#8217; my train should have been: 1 in 4, 1 in 10, 1 in 15 and 1 in 10 (randomness being randomness i should &#8216;catch&#8217; my train 25% of the time if it comes every 4 minutes)  that puts my recent 4 for 4  streak at <strong>1 in 1501 <\/strong>. normal joe office worker  working 9:00 to 5:30 (that 30 min lunch being unpaid of course) living at my stop ( train times, 4-5 minutes in the morning, every 5 minutes in the evening), and working in lower-midtown-ish manhattan has a daily 1 in 10 chance that he\/she will &#8216;score&#8217; on their inbound and outbound trip in any one day. four times in row (two morings and two evenings) though would be <strong>1 in 100<\/strong>. im not a statistician in the least, but i&#8217;m guessing that i&#8217;ll have plenty of twenty-nine minute late night waits in the near-near future<sup> 2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/path\/PATH_Schedule.pdf\">PATH Schedule (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup><i> waiting on the platform allows sorting out of the ipod and beginning\/choosing some reading of some sort, so it&#8217;s not all bad<\/i><br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup><i> the twenty-nine minute wait occurs when you arrive to the train as it pulls out of the station late at night, leads to unwise sitting on the floor <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the last four times i&#8217;ve walked down the stairs to a PATH station i&#8217;ve arrived at a train pulling in, or having just pulled into the station, and i&#8217;ve gotten on, without any waiting on the platform 1. this of couse called for a little, evaluating. the times this occurred, two times manhattan-bound around 10:15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}