{"id":2588,"date":"2007-08-06T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/miracle_of_life_free_rides_for_life_free_rides.html"},"modified":"2007-08-06T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:38:15","slug":"miracle_of_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/miracle_of_life.html","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Of Life . . . Free Rides For Life . . . Free Rides!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t even think about getting creative with that C-section because it won’t work<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s no such thing as a free ride – even if you’re born on a bus or subway.<\/p>\n

That’s the word from New York City Transit.<\/p>\n

But Lydia Irvin is still convinced the old urban legend is true, and she hopes her granddaughter’s birth certificate is as good as a lifetime free MetroCard.<\/p>\n

The baby girl, also named Lydia Irvin, was born on a B15 bus last Monday evening after doctors at Kings County Hospital sent her mom, Madeline Rivera, home, insisting that she was not going into labor.<\/p>\n

Rivera and Irvin left the hospital and hopped on the B12 bus, then transferred to the B15 at Eastern Parkway.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, Rivera leaned over to Irvin and whispered, “I think the baby is coming now.”<\/p>\n

Irvin suggested they get off the bus immediately, but Rivera said, “We’re almost home.”<\/p>\n

But the baby wasn’t going to wait, and the bus driver pulled over in front of a Laundromat on Vermont Avenue. He and Irvin laid Rivera on the floor at the foot of the driver’s seat.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“She’s an MTA baby,” Irvin said. “On her birth certificate, it doesn’t say she was born at the hospital, it says on the B15 bus.<\/p>\n

“The bus driver and several MTA employees all told me that she would get free rides for life.”<\/p>\n

MTA officials said if that ever was the policy, baby Lydia missed the bus by some 60 years.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if we’ve ever done that,” a spokeswoman said. “Maybe in the 1940s, but that’s before my time.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Lydia’s grandma was optimistic.<\/p>\n

“Too many people have told me they give at least a year’s worth of free rides,” she said. “But if they don’t, that’s OK, too — this was a miracle, and that’s all that matters.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t even think about getting creative with that C-section because it won’t work: There’s no such thing as a free ride – even if you’re born on a bus or subway. That’s the word from New York City Transit. But Lydia Irvin is still convinced the old urban legend is true, and she hopes her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}