{"id":5066,"date":"2009-06-30T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2009-06-30T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:03:21","slug":"gulf_of_tonkin_on_the_williamsburg_bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/gulf_of_tonkin_on_the_williamsburg_bridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Of Tonkin On The Williamsburg Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/29\/pedicabs-roll-toward-regulation\/\">the City appears moving towards regulating pedicabs<\/a> &#8212; just weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/11\/nyregion\/11pedicab.html\">a horrible pedicab accident on the Williamsburg Bridge<\/a> &#8212; you kind of start to wonder whether the circumstances around the accident are a little fishy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Although a law exists that prohibits pedicabs from traveling on bridges and in tunnels, the city does not enforce the ban because of a lawsuit challenging the law&#8217;s licensing provisions. The suit has been resolved, but the city must draft new rules and hold hearings before the law can be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the 90th Precinct were investigating. No criminal charges had been filed by Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Other pedicab operators said they did not understand why a pedicab would be operating so early in the morning, particularly in that neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very unusual circumstance, a pedicab on that bridge at that time of the day,&#8221; said Peter Meitzler, who owns Manhattan Rickshaw in the West Village.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the City appears moving towards regulating pedicabs &#8212; just weeks after a horrible pedicab accident on the Williamsburg Bridge &#8212; you kind of start to wonder whether the circumstances around the accident are a little fishy: Although a law exists that prohibits pedicabs from traveling on bridges and in tunnels, the city does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}