{"id":2124,"date":"2007-02-20T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_multi-tentacled_reach_of_the_most_insidious_lobby_around.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:58:58","slug":"the_multitentac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_multitentac.html","title":{"rendered":"The Multi-Tentacled Reach Of The Most Insidious Lobby Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filthy pedicab industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/bacdafucup_pedi.html\">not only has its dirty paws in everything<\/a>, it has its dirty paws in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02202007\/news\/regionalnews\/pedicab_a_driving_force_in_i_love_n_y__commercial_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan.htm\">literally everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>While the city tries to clamp down on all the pedal-powered taxis clogging Midtown streets, the state has made a pedicab driver its tourism pitchman.<\/p>\n<p>A helpful pedicab driver carting tourists down a busy Manhattan avenue is featured prominently in an &#8220;I Love New York&#8221; TV ad produced by the state &#8212; sharing equal screen time with Knick star Stephon Marbury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems problematic to promote pedicabs to tourists and then restrict them so that when tourists arrive in New York, there won&#8217;t be any pedicabs for them,&#8221; said Chad Marlow, spokesman for the NYC Pedicab Owners Association.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The filthy pedicab industry not only has its dirty paws in everything, it has its dirty paws in literally everything: While the city tries to clamp down on all the pedal-powered taxis clogging Midtown streets, the state has made a pedicab driver its tourism pitchman. A helpful pedicab driver carting tourists down a busy Manhattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}