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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014 Thought folks might find this amusing just the same - MTA nabs cab driver. :)http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/taxi-driver-accused-of-tailgating-to-avoid-paying-a-whopping--28k-in-tolls-202911384.html Tease: In New York, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced yesterday (PDF) that a taxi driver, 69-year-old Rodolfo Sanchez, has been charged with stealing more than $28,000 from the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) by, “crossing the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge and entering the Midtown Tunnel without making a toll payment on more than four thousand separate occasions by ‘piggybacking’ on cars directly in front of his cab between 2012 and 2014.” |
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Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :) |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 20 11:24:05 2014, in response to MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014. The $$$ that he stole will cover about a fifth (if that) the cost of a taxi medallion, these days. When I was driving a yellow cab for a fleet (Sculls Angles) back in 1973, a taxi medallion cost about 45K. That was serious bucks back then. Now one costs well into 6 figures.Driving a cab in NYC = the worst job on the planet!! |
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Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :) |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Apr 20 12:31:56 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 20 11:24:05 2014. That is why they hire Martians to do it.ROAR |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 20 12:52:39 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Apr 20 12:31:56 2014. "That is why they hire Martians to do it.".. Maybe your on (to) something...Years ago, Thought I saw Ray Walston at the Wheel of a Checker Marathon !! |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Apr 20 14:44:25 2014, in response to MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014. See this all the time at EZ Pass booths on the Turnpike. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Apr 20 14:44:27 2014, in response to MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014. See this all the time at EZ Pass booths on the Turnpike. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Apr 20 15:37:39 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 20 11:24:05 2014. Today it is a million dollars. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 15:53:00 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 20 11:24:05 2014. Yep ... my pops had an individual medallion and Checker right after the war until he died. |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Apr 21 00:27:04 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Apr 20 14:44:27 2014. Yet another reason to convert to high speed toll collection like on the Thruway... harder to pull this off when it's two EZ Pass readers 1/4 mile apart, and everyone's doing 65+... |
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Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :) |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Apr 21 10:06:40 2014, in response to MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014. How many are getting away with this every day? Could be a major flaw in the system. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 23 15:01:02 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Apr 21 00:27:04 2014. Do the lanes Chris is referring to have gates? License plate cameras? Either way he has no idea if the piggybacker has properly paid the toll with E-ZPass or not. Where possible I follow closely behind the car in front of me through E-ZPass lanes because I'm all about getting where I'm going today, not next week. But my piggybacking still involves properly paying the toll via E-ZPass. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 23 16:32:12 2014, in response to MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Apr 20 05:18:02 2014. If I follow a car close through the toll, I slow down to make sure I get the greenpaid light . Normally I usually speedy lanes anyway ,no problem! |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 23 16:37:33 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 23 16:32:12 2014. If you follow close enough won't the green paid light just stay lit from the car before you? Why slow down so much that there's enough time for the light to go unlit and then light back up for you? |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 23 16:47:56 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 23 16:37:33 2014. If you slow down below 10 mph , they reccomend 5, it sequences and never has anyone beeped at me to go faster😀 |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Apr 25 08:54:16 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 23 15:01:02 2014. Bump. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Apr 25 08:55:41 2014, in response to Re: MTA-related, but barely on topic. :), posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 23 16:47:56 2014. Speed spent matter - it's how far you are from the vehicle in front of you. |
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