{"id":1932,"date":"2006-12-22T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_tallboy_rebellion.html"},"modified":"2006-12-22T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:50:58","slug":"the_tallboy_reb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_tallboy_reb.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tallboy Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t just stand there, create an acronym<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A proposed booze ban on Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road has a group of commuters banding together to insist that the next stop not be prohibition.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Board member Mitchell Pally said the MTA, a state entity, shouldn’t encourage alcohol use. Some riders drive home after riding the train, he said, raising a safety concern. And alcohol use can lead to boorish behavior, Pally said.<\/p>\n

But a spokesman for the recently formed Commuters Allied for Responsible Enjoyment, or CARE, said taking away a cold beer on the ride home after a hard day at the office would be an injustice.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been burdened by people talking loudly and too long on their cell phones, by people eating pungent foods . . . awful odors from the bathrooms and overcrowding, but I’ve never had a problem where someone was acting in a drunken manner,” CARE spokesman Richard Shea said.<\/p>\n

Kevin Pearce, a Metro-North rider and founding member of CARE, said the concept of Pally’s prohibition is patronizing and insulting.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a child,” Pearce, an editor at a cable television network, said. “I’m not the frat-house rush chairman. I’m an ordinary taxpaying commuter who is a calm, peaceful person, just like 99.9% of people on the train.”<\/p>\n

Another founding member and Metro-North rider said a booze ban would be an affront to American freedom – and he’s from London, where they still stop traffic for royalty.<\/p>\n

“It’s preposterous,” said David Karat, a finance executive. “All we’re trying to do is have a quiet respectable drink on the train on our way home to our families.”<\/p>\n

The first shot in the battle will be a letter-writing campaign to pressure MTA board members and elected officials to reject any ban. CARE will soon have a Web site up and running (www.alliedcommuters.com).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t just stand there, create an acronym: A proposed booze ban on Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road has a group of commuters banding together to insist that the next stop not be prohibition. . . . Board member Mitchell Pally said the MTA, a state entity, shouldn’t encourage alcohol use. Some riders drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}