{"id":6305,"date":"2010-12-13T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2010-12-13T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:25:57","slug":"backdooring_underhanded_low-life_stealing_high_entrance-exit_turnstiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/12\/backdooring_underhanded_low-life_stealing_high_entrance-exit_turnstiles.html","title":{"rendered":"Backdooring Underhanded Low-Life Stealing High Entrance-Exit Turnstiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/12\/13\/2010-12-13_step_right_up_and_pay_twice_for_same_ride_the_biggest_robbers_down_here.html\">a great way to balance any tenuous budget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Most subway riders can quickly navigate through a revolving-door, ceiling-to-floor turnstile. It&#8217;s a simple enough maneuver: Swipe the MetroCard, step straight ahead, push the bars forward.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>But the cagelike contraptions can bamboozle less experienced travelers into paying the $2.25 fare twice &#8212; an apparently unintended consequence of the design that doesn&#8217;t seem to trouble the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the biggest robbers down here,&#8221; one transit worker said as he repaired a high entrance-exit turnstile, or HEET, in the Union Square station.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, a great way to balance any tenuous budget: Most subway riders can quickly navigate through a revolving-door, ceiling-to-floor turnstile. It&#8217;s a simple enough maneuver: Swipe the MetroCard, step straight ahead, push the bars forward. . . . But the cagelike contraptions can bamboozle less experienced travelers into paying the $2.25 fare twice &#8212; an [&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-6305","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\/6305","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=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}