{"id":3394,"date":"2008-05-01T05:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2008-05-01T05:50:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:50:43","slug":"cross_promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/cross_promotion.html","title":{"rendered":"Cross Promotion . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Skyler has internalized it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The free ride is finally over for thousands of privileged parkers, with the city yanking more than 25,000 permits in a sweeping overhaul yesterday of a gilded system that for years has infuriated regular motorists.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said 32 percent of the 80,770 official parking placards used by 68 different agencies had been withdrawn.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Skyler insisted that vehicles with expired permits and those bearing placards issued without authority by uniformed unions — the bane of many irate motorists trying to find a parking spot — would now be ticketed. “You might as well have Time magazine on your windshield [as an expired permit],” he said. “It’ll be just as effective.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because speaking of Time Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg went out on a limb — and it got him named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.<\/p>\n

The magazine posed him on a tree outside City Hall on April 18 to illustrate his commitment to environmental issues.<\/p>\n

Happily, the mayor — who rode to his perch on a cherry picker — was safe from any dive-bombing birds. His security guard was planted firmly in a flower bed below him.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s a commitment to environmental issues, not constitutional issues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign to get guns off the streets, a federal appeals court shot down a suit by the city that sought to make firearm makers responsible for the illegal sale of weapons.<\/p>\n

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan tossed out the lawsuit in light of a 2005 law that Congress crafted in direct response to the city’s claims. The 2-to-1 split opinion overturned an earlier ruling by Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein, who was poised to start a trial in the case when Congress approved the law.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg said he is “disappointed,” but vowed to continue his fight against illegal guns through another lawsuit targeting crooked dealers and pawnshops.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed Skyler has internalized it: The free ride is finally over for thousands of privileged parkers, with the city yanking more than 25,000 permits in a sweeping overhaul yesterday of a gilded system that for years has infuriated regular motorists. Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said 32 percent of the 80,770 official parking placards used by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}