{"id":2674,"date":"2007-08-27T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/congestion_pricing_potentially_deadly.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:41:33","slug":"congestion_pric_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/congestion_pric_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Congestion Pricing . . . Potentially Deadly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a New Yorker &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/yes_daddy_its_p.html\">so you stand next to people . . . get real<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08272007\/news\/regionalnews\/city_sued_for_death_on_subway.htm\">sink or swim here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A crowded subway platform and hundreds of aggressive commuters &#8220;pushing and shoving&#8221; their way on and off trains was a deadly combination for a 63-year-old woman who fell to the tracks, hit her head and died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the woman&#8217;s daughter filed a lawsuit against the city and the MTA, blaming them for not doing enough to protect her mother.<\/p>\n<p>On May 22, 2006, Maria Navarro, who walked with the help of a cane, exited a train at the Roosevelt Avenue-74th Street subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens, and was overcome by the crush of people.<\/p>\n<p>She fell to the tracks and died a month later.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a New Yorker &#8212; so you stand next to people . . . get real &#8212; it&#8217;s sink or swim here: A crowded subway platform and hundreds of aggressive commuters &#8220;pushing and shoving&#8221; their way on and off trains was a deadly combination for a 63-year-old woman who fell to the tracks, hit her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","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=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}