{"id":5432,"date":"2009-09-25T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:28:42","slug":"traffic_agents_thrown_under_the_bus_not_literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/traffic_agents_thrown_under_the_bus_not_literally.html","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Agents Thrown Under The Bus (Not Literally!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note that they wouldn&#8217;t need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyneagle.com\/categories\/category.php?category_id=31&#038;id=30936\">to sit down with merchants and &#8220;retrain&#8221; their agents<\/a> if City Hall wasn&#8217;t trying to balance the budget on dubious double-parking tickets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;New instructions have been given to our traffic agents. The way we issue summonses will be different and we ask our agents to be patient,&#8221; said Frank Sepulveda, the NYPD&#8217;s director of traffic enforcement for the city. &#8220;By the end of this month all our agents should have the new training. We will look at how we can handle difficult summons situations differently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>On problems, businessman Dan Texeira led the complaint barrage. &#8220;I stopped my car to let off my son. Just then a traffic agent cut off in front of my car and gave me a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That wasn&#8217;t right,&#8221; said Sepulveda.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that they wouldn&#8217;t need to sit down with merchants and &#8220;retrain&#8221; their agents if City Hall wasn&#8217;t trying to balance the budget on dubious double-parking tickets: &#8220;New instructions have been given to our traffic agents. The way we issue summonses will be different and we ask our agents to be patient,&#8221; said Frank Sepulveda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,68,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here","category-follow_the_money","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","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=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}