{"id":3521,"date":"2008-06-13T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:24:43","slug":"pockets_how_deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/pockets_how_deep.html","title":{"rendered":"Pockets How Deep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty deep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/new-york\/mta-paid-11b-in-settlement-costs-over-12-years\/79954\/\">A lot of trips to the tailor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has had nearly 87,000 personal injury or property damage claims from customers since 1996, resulting in $1.1 billion in settlement costs, according to a report issued by the state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The claims over the last 12 years include $285,046 paid by the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad to passengers who tore items of clothing on armrests of the M7 train cars that service those lines.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>An MTA spokesman, Jeremy Soffin, responded to the report, saying, &#8220;The MTA&#8217;s ultimate incurred cost for employee and customer accidents is less than what would have been expected, a savings of approximately $335 million from 1997-2007.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty deep. A lot of trips to the tailor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has had nearly 87,000 personal injury or property damage claims from customers since 1996, resulting in $1.1 billion in settlement costs, according to a report issued by the state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, yesterday. The claims over the last 12 years include $285,046 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","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=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}