{"id":1718,"date":"2006-11-01T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/take_a_cab.html"},"modified":"2006-11-01T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:55:56","slug":"take_a_cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/take_a_cab.html","title":{"rendered":"Take A Cab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bus driver should be praised as a guardian of public health, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11012006\/news\/regionalnews\/cougher_bus_ted_by_driver_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan.htm\">not singled out in the Post for his over-zealousness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you cough, you gotta get off!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the philosophy of one city bus driver, according to a Wall Street banker who claims he was ejected for coughing.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Goga says the germophobic driver of an X10 express bus to Staten Island yesterday became incensed right after Goga &#8220;just cleared my throat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir, you coughed on my bus and you have to get off,&#8221; Goga says the driver told him. &#8220;I can&#8217;t have you get sick on this bus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Goga refused, he says, the driver took the bus out of service and ordered all the passengers off in lower Manhattan. Goga then called cops to file a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA contends the driver only attempted to forestall the rapid transit of germs by asking Goga to cover his mouth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bus driver should be praised as a guardian of public health, not singled out in the Post for his over-zealousness: If you cough, you gotta get off! That&#8217;s the philosophy of one city bus driver, according to a Wall Street banker who claims he was ejected for coughing. Michael Goga says the germophobic driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}