{"id":2289,"date":"2007-05-04T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/pay_to_guard_strays.html"},"modified":"2007-05-04T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T22:40:23","slug":"pay_to_guard_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/pay_to_guard_st.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay To Guard Strays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve recently had trouble finding a black cab on your way home from Wall Street, it could be because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05042007\/news\/regionalnews\/con_ed_workers_rip_driver_guards_regionalnews_bill_sanderson.htm\">Con Ed has taken them all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Con Ed workers are angry that the utility is hiring livery drivers to warn people away from electrically charged streetlights, manholes and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a program to seek out deadly street-level electricity leaks, a Con Ed contractor pays the drivers to park by hot spots and ensure that people don&#8217;t touch them before a repair crew arrives.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Local 1-2 [of the Utility Workers of America] complained to the state Public Service Commission weeks ago, citing the case of a livery driver who sat for more than a day and fell asleep &#8212; at $35 an hour &#8212; in front of a Flushing, Queens, pay phone that was leaking electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers, meanwhile, are thankful for the work, said Fernando Mateo of the state Federation of Taxi Drivers, adding that &#8220;it opens up a whole new industry for us.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve recently had trouble finding a black cab on your way home from Wall Street, it could be because Con Ed has taken them all: Con Ed workers are angry that the utility is hiring livery drivers to warn people away from electrically charged streetlights, manholes and other equipment. As part of a program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}