{"id":5898,"date":"2010-03-13T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:08:47","slug":"this_is_why_we_hate_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/this_is_why_we_hate_you.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why We Hate You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/nyregion\/13taxi.html\">Fuck you, cab driver<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>About 3,000 New York City taxi drivers routinely overcharged riders over two years by surreptitiously fixing their meters to charge rates that would normally apply only to trips outside the five boroughs, according to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taxi and Limousine Commission.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Taxi and Limousine Commission directed meter manufacturers to modify the equipment, to warn riders when the rate rises.<br \/>\nThe drivers&#8217; scheme, the commission said, involved 1.8 million rides and cost passengers an average of $4 to $5 extra per trip. The drivers, officials said, flipped switches on their meters that kicked in the higher rates, costing New York City riders a total of $8.3 million.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuck you, cab driver: About 3,000 New York City taxi drivers routinely overcharged riders over two years by surreptitiously fixing their meters to charge rates that would normally apply only to trips outside the five boroughs, according to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taxi and Limousine Commission. . . . The Taxi and Limousine Commission directed meter manufacturers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","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=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}