{"id":7001,"date":"2012-02-24T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2012-02-24T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:15:23","slug":"truth_and_reconciliation_at_the_tlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/02\/truth_and_reconciliation_at_the_tlc.html","title":{"rendered":"Truth And Reconciliation At The TLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/this_is_why_we_hate_you.html\">so many cab drivers cheating people<\/a>, the Taxi &#038; Limousine Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/cabby_crooks_off_hook_8HeqVhxAlRScoCyMcWcD6H\">can only focus on a few of the worst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It was one of the biggest scandals in the taxi industry&#8217;s history, but nearly 90 percent of the 21,819 cabbies accused of ripping off passengers with inflated fares will get off scot-free, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>One source conceded that the sheer volume of cases made it &#8220;administratively unwieldy&#8221; to bring charges against every alleged culprit.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because there were so many cab drivers cheating people, the Taxi &#038; Limousine Commission can only focus on a few of the worst: It was one of the biggest scandals in the taxi industry&#8217;s history, but nearly 90 percent of the 21,819 cabbies accused of ripping off passengers with inflated fares will get off scot-free, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","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=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}