From the monthly archives:
Taxi Group Applauds Decision and Sees Safe, Fuel-Efficient Taxis In Near Future A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction against the City of New York’s hybrid taxi mandate, which was to take effect tomorrow, November 1st. Judge Paul A. Crotty of the United States District Court, Southern District of [tag]New York[/tag] ruled in favor [...]
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Starting on November 3, 2008, accessible taxicabs will receive priority when being dispatched at JFK Airport. The Port Authority of NY and NJ will sponsor this pilot program as an incentive to encourage taxicab drivers to provide service to people with disabilities.
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ROWS of Lincoln Town Cars idling at the curbside, a scene as socially suspect as the old X-rated Times Square, will soon begin disappearing from New York City streets. Ambitious city fuel economy rules, written to curb the thirst of black cars, will steadily sideline the big V-8 powered sedans that corporate New York has [...]
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15 MPG City-Ford Crown Victoria October 1st was the scheduled deadline implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg jointly with The Taxi and Limousine Commission, in which All taxicabs that met their 3 and 5 year retirement age had to be replaced by far more fuel efficient cars. Rather than having more 2008 Crown Victorias, we would be seeing all [...]
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Hyman Bloom started driving a cab in New York City more than 30 years ago. He made $40 for 10 hours of work, he remembers — and started to wonder what he was doing in a taxi. But the job has its allure, Bloom recently told Andrew Vollo, a fellow cab driver. For one thing, [...]
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NYC Taxi Photo Guest Photo Post Sunnyside, Queens
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A new report by a noted automotive engineer exposes several safety hazards of hybrid taxis in New York City, including rollovers as well as other safety-related concerns. The new report, by C. Bruce Gambardella, who released a groundbreaking report on hybrid taxi safety last month, focuses on a collision and rollover of a 2008 Ford [...]
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Think it’s hard to hail a cab now? It’s about to get worse, as taxi-fleet owners run their old cars into the ground – because new ones are nearly impossible to buy. High nationwide demand for fuel-efficient cars means that hardly any Ford Escapes or other hybrids required to replace old cabs under Mayor Bloomberg’s green-taxi [...]
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Two of the world’s largest automakers, Toyota and Honda, have issued outright warnings against using their hybrid passenger vehicles as commercial taxicabs. In addition, Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Nissan, have refused to certify the crashworthiness of their hybrid New York City taxicabs as modified with mandatory partitions. Instead, the automakers shift that responsibility [...]
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