{"id":392,"date":"2005-09-20T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/subway_rules_not_mine.html"},"modified":"2005-09-20T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T18:11:23","slug":"subway_rules_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/subway_rules_no.html","title":{"rendered":"Subway Rules, Not Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA has backed down from a proposed ban on drinking any kind of beverage in the subway, saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/347947p-296952c.html\">&#8220;it ain&#8217;t worth the fight&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sip away, straphangers<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to ban drinking nonalcoholic beverages on subways and buses will not be adopted by the MTA, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It ain&#8217;t worth the fight,&#8221; one source said.<\/p>\n<p>For years there had been a rule, rarely enforced, against open beverage containers on subways and buses. Transit officials seeking to ban people from drinking said they just wanted to close a loophole.<\/p>\n<p>But the spectre of police hitting riders with tickets for sipping cups of coffee or drinking water sparked outrage.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will be enforced is the ban on walking between cars, which will carry a $75 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA has backed down from a proposed ban on drinking any kind of beverage in the subway, saying &#8220;it ain&#8217;t worth the fight&#8221;: Sip away, straphangers A proposal to ban drinking nonalcoholic beverages on subways and buses will not be adopted by the MTA, sources said. &#8220;It ain&#8217;t worth the fight,&#8221; one source said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}