Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'toll'
September 4, 2008
The Port Authority stopped a tractor-trailer when its driver made its license plate disappear on the Goethals Bridge. How? According to the Daily News, Orland Payano "had a cable running from the license plate to the dashboard cigarette lighter." When the lighter is manipulated, the front plate is tucked away. (The rear plate was "bent, partially concealing its markings.") A PA officer noticed that the plate disappeared and Payano was charged with fare evasion and......
Continue Reading "Ingenious, Illegal Way to Beat Tolls"July 20, 2008
It's one tall toll tale: The Post has a pretty crazy story about a toll worker who ended up pulling his "MTA Bridges and Tunnels-issued Glock 9mm pistol on a driver who handed him a wad of crumpled cash." The drama happened last year, when a driver hand crumbled bills to Bridge & Tunnels officer Daniel Bell. Bell refused them, saying the driver, FBI agent Wilfred Rattigan, had to straight them himself. Rattigan asked to......
Continue Reading "Queens-Midtown Toll Dispute Ends in Toll Taker's Firing"June 22, 2008
Four more people can be added to the total number of New Yorkers who have been run down by drivers finding it difficult to stay on the road this weekend. In the fourth incident in two days, two toddlers were badly injured when a 16-year-old driver swerved onto the sidewalk in Flatbush, Brooklyn and injured two children and two young women. Both of the toddlers needed to be hospitalized--one in critical condition and the other......
Continue Reading "Car-nage Continues as More Pedestrians Struck"
