{"id":665,"date":"2006-02-06T10:14:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/rubber_sole.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:14:43","slug":"rubber_sole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/rubber_sole.html","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Sole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/61420.htm\">There are still too many things on city streets that can electrocute you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Stray electrical voltage was found at more than 1,100 sites in the city last year &#8212; and 72 of those street lamps, sidewalk grates and utility boxes sizzled with potentially lethal levels of errant electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In its first comprehensive testing of stray voltage, Con Ed found 1,151 faulty pieces of publicly accessible equipment throughout all five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>About 92 percent of the loose juice was found in streetlights, overwhelmingly in the outer boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Queens had the worst record, with 404 volt-spewing streetlights, followed by Staten Island with 291, The Bronx with 283 and Brooklyn with 79. Manhattan had just nine energized poles.<\/p>\n<p>Although the number of hazardous sites fell 20 percent from those identified a year earlier, critics said one jolt is too many. The new report points to one particular culprit &#8212; old aluminum cables inside streetlights.<\/p>\n<p>Con Ed says that about half of the faulty streetlights are the responsibility of the city Department of Transportation &#8212; but that in every case of stray voltage, the utility does cut the power and make the equipment safe until repairs can be done.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether it had plans to upgrade all the streetlights whose older wiring has proven hazardous, Con Ed would not commit to anything.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still too many things on city streets that can electrocute you: Stray electrical voltage was found at more than 1,100 sites in the city last year &#8212; and 72 of those street lamps, sidewalk grates and utility boxes sizzled with potentially lethal levels of errant electricity. In its first comprehensive testing of stray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}